A paragraph containing only two colons ¶
indicates that the following indented ¶
or quoted text is a literal block ¶
(i.e. where no markup processing is ¶
done), which are used e.g. to ¶
illustrate plaintext markup. ¶
¶
:: ¶
¶
Whitespace, newlines, blank lines and ¶
all kinds of markup (like this or ¶
this) is preserved by literal blocks. ¶
¶
The paragraph containing only '::' ¶
will be omitted from the result. ¶
¶
The :: may be tracked onto the very ¶
end of any paragraph. The :: will be ¶
omitted it is preceded by whitespace. ¶
The :: will be converted to a single ¶
colon if preceded by text, like this:: ¶
¶
It's very convenient to use this form. ¶
¶
Literal blocks end when text returns to ¶
the preceding paragraph's indentation. ¶
This means that something like this is ¶
possible:: ¶
¶
We start here ¶
and continue here ¶
and end here. ¶
¶
Per-line quoting can also be used on ¶
unindented literal blocks:: ¶
¶
> Useful for quotes from email and ¶
> for Haskell literate programming.