1. Whitespace

   Whitespaces are space ( ), tab ( ), form feed (), and zero-width space (​). The carriage return (CR) ( ) and line feed (LF) ( ) are also whitespaces in the HTML document. Whitespace characters will have no visual formatting effects. A number of whitespace will only compact to one space.

   _quote "These two are equal: {ABC   DEF} == {ABC DEF}"

2. Structure

   The _em and _strong are two most common commands to make structural text. _em is emphasis (default italic) and _strong is strong emphasis (default bold). Other commands work for special purposes. The _cite command is a citation or reference to other source; _dfn command is the defining instance of the enclosed term; _code command is used to represent computer code; and _samp command is for the sample output. In addition, _var command marks the instance of a variable; _abbr command tags abbreviated form; _acronym command tags acronym; and _kbd command represents the text to be entered by user. Finally, _sup and _sub mark the text as superscript and subscript.

   _em; _quote "The emphasis is italic."; em_
   _strong; _quote "The strong is blod."; strong_
   _cite; _quote "citation"; cite_
   _dfn; _quote "defining instance"; dfn_
   
   _code; _quote "computer code"; code_
   _samp; _quote "sample output"; samp_
   _var; _quote "variable"; var_
   _abbr; _quote "abbreviated form"; abbr_
   
   _quote [_acronym_ "acronym"]
   _quote [_kbd_ "entered text"]
   _quote [_sub_ "subscript"]
   _quote [_sup_ "superscript"]
   

   _blockquote and _q command are for long and short quotation respectively. Browsers generally render _blockquote as an indented block. _q command generally shows text with delimiting quotation marks. _blockquote is suitable to use with CSS.

   _blockquote "id='group'" 
     _quote "block words." 
   blockquote_
   _q; _quote "quote words"; q_
    		

3. Paragraph

   _p command defines a paragraph. It is also used as a newline in the Snaml. Its 'clear' attribute specifies the property that floats around another object. _br command forces a line break. The character ' ' is a real space.

   Plain hyphen is just a regular character '-'. However, the soft hypehn is represented as ­ (­). Usually a browser did not display soft hyphen if a line is not broken at a soft hyphen, otherwise it displays the '-' in the end of a line.

   _pre command defines preformatted text. It will render the text content of the _pre command "as is". All the newline and space characters will be kept.

   Finally, _ins and _del commands mark the sections of a document that has been inserted or deleted. They are rarely used.

   _p "clear=right"
     _quote "float paragraph"; _br
     _quote "in the document."
   p_
   
   _pre
     _quote "preformatted text with space and newline."
   pre_
   		

Whitespace

Structure

Paragraph