Syntax Conventions

Each tag must start with a colon (:) and end with a period (.). (The period is also known as a delimiter.) For example, the tag for a paragraph is:

:p.

A tag indicates how the text that immediately follows it is to be processed. In the following example, the text immediately after the paragraph tag (:p.) is the actual text that is displayed in the window, and it will begin a new paragraph.

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