From 846e41d7f65ba57924f0318e27dcc7b4a05aafc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carolyn Au <cyin@google.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:30:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] example formatter options

---
 _sass/friendly_code.scss   |  5 ++++-
 api/rest/v2/observation.md | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/_sass/friendly_code.scss b/_sass/friendly_code.scss
index 4339b108e..796a8844d 100644
--- a/_sass/friendly_code.scss
+++ b/_sass/friendly_code.scss
@@ -61,4 +61,7 @@
 .highlight .vc { color: #bb60d5 } /* Name.Variable.Class */
 .highlight .vg { color: #bb60d5 } /* Name.Variable.Global */
 .highlight .vi { color: #bb60d5 } /* Name.Variable.Instance */
-.highlight .il { color: #40a070 } /* Literal.Number.Integer.Long */
\ No newline at end of file
+.highlight .il { color: #40a070 } /* Literal.Number.Integer.Long */
+
+.language-json-doc .err { border: none; font-style: italic }
+.language-js .nx { font-style: italic; color: #007020; }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/api/rest/v2/observation.md b/api/rest/v2/observation.md
index 9840ede03..efbbc9e36 100644
--- a/api/rest/v2/observation.md
+++ b/api/rest/v2/observation.md
@@ -18,9 +18,43 @@ and so on.
 When querying observations, you need to provide variable, entities, and dates.
 Specify variables as a list, in this form:
 
+yaml
+```yaml
+{
+  "dcids": [VARIABLE_DCID_1, VARIABLE_DCID_2]
+  "dcids": ["<VARIABLE_DCID_1>", "<VARIABLE_DCID_2>"]
+}
+```
+
+json-doc
 ```json-doc
 {
-  "dcids": [_VARIABLE_DCID1_, _VARIABLE_DCID2_]
+  "dcids": [VARIABLE_DCID_1, VARIABLE_DCID_2],
+  "dcids": ["<VARIABLE_DCID_1>", "<VARIABLE_DCID_2>"]
+}
+```
+
+elixir
+```elixir
+{
+  "dcids": [VARIABLE_DCID_1, VARIABLE_DCID_2],
+  "dcids": ["<VARIABLE_DCID_1>", "<VARIABLE_DCID_2>"]
+}
+```
+
+js
+```js
+{
+  "dcids": [VARIABLE_DCID_1, VARIABLE_DCID_2],
+  "dcids": ["<VARIABLE_DCID_1>", "<VARIABLE_DCID_2>"]
+}
+```
+
+go
+```go
+{
+  "dcids": [VARIABLE_DCID_1, VARIABLE_DCID_2],
+  "dcids": ["<VARIABLE_DCID_1>", "<VARIABLE_DCID_2>"]
 }
 ```