features - captions and paragraphs - bulleted lists, can be nested - numbered lists, can be nested - definition lists (''term -- definition'') - quotations (''"quote" -- source'' ) - inline formatting - **strong** //emph// __underlined__ ''\'\'code\'\''' - urls ''[link>>http://plain.at/]'' is translated to a hyperlink: [link>>http://plain.at/]\
the label '''link''' is optional - general-purpose escaping with a backslash before the character to escape (''\\\[\]'') - . as pseudo paragraph to force indentation levels and to prevent single lines from becoming undesired captions (. is always a ''('para "")'' node) - comments (hash sign in column 0) for '''# vim: ts:3''' etc - multi-line comments with ''#=ignore'', ''#=end'' - multi-line pass-through with ''#=preserve'', ''#=end'' - horizontal rules with lines consisting of dashes only - figures - with syntax dependant (pluggable) formatting and - automatic numbering and - an optional caption - source code, as figure with the default type #Simple C Program #include #define S "Hello, World\n" int main(int argc, char **argv) { exit(printf(S) == strlen(S) ? 0 : 1); } - images, as figure with #type:image #type:image #Ginko Biloba ../biloba.jpg --- #=preserve 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 #=end