\section{features}

\begin{itemize}
\item{captions and paragraphs}\item{bulleted lists,  can be nested}\item{numbered lists,  can be nested}\item{definition lists (`\verb|term -- definition|')}\item{quotations (`\verb|"quote" -- source|' )}\item{inline formatting}\begin{itemize}
\item{\textbf{*strong*} \emph{/emph/} \underline{_underlined_} `\verb|''code''|'}\item{urls `\verb|[link>>http://plain.at/]|' is translated to a hyperlink: \link{\label{link}\target{http://plain.at/}}
 the label `\verb|'link'|' is optional}\end{itemize}

\item{general-purpose escaping with a backslash before the character to escape (`\verb|\[]|')}\item{. as pseudo paragraph to force indentation levels and to prevent single lines from becoming undesired captions (. is always a `\verb|('para "")|' node)}\item{comments (hash sign in column 0) for `\verb|'# vim: ts:3'|' etc}\item{multi-line comments with `\verb|#=ignore|', `\verb|#=end|'}\item{multi-line pass-through with `\verb|#=preserve|', `\verb|#=end|'}\item{horizontal rules with lines consisting of dashes only}\item{figures}\begin{itemize}
\item{with syntax dependant (pluggable) formatting and}\item{automatic numbering and}\item{an optional caption}\end{itemize}

\item{source code, as figure with the default type}\end{itemize}

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\begin{verbatim}
#include 
#define S "Hello, Worldn"

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  exit(printf(S) == strlen(S) ? 0 : 1);
}
\end{verbatim}\caption{Simple C Program}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
\begin{itemize}
\item{images, as figure with \#type:image}\end{itemize}

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{../biloba}\caption{Ginko Biloba}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
\rule{2in}{1mm}

Image taken from

Albion College, Image Gallery

Ginkgo Biloba L.

Photo by: Tamara Crupi, September 1996

URL: www.albion.edu/newplants/detail.asp?imagenumber=6