(zettel (meta (back "00001007030000 00001007030800 00001007800000 00001007990000 00001012920513") (backward "00001007030000 00001007030800 00001007800000 00001007990000 00001012920513") (box-number "1") (created "00010101000000") (forward "00001007040000") (modified "20220218131155") (published "20220218131155") (role "manual") (syntax "zmk") (tags "#manual #zettelmarkup #zettelstore") (title "Zettelmarkup: Description Lists")) (rights 4) (encoding "") (content "A description list is a sequence of terms to be described together with the descriptions of each term.\nEvery term can described in multiple ways.\n\nA description term (short: __term__) is specified with one semicolon (\"\"'';''\"\", U+003B) at the first position, followed by a space character and the described term, specified as a sequence of line elements.\nIf the following lines should also be part of the term, exactly two spaces must be given at the beginning of each following line.\n\nThe description of a term is given with one colon (\"\"'':''\"\", U+003A) at the first position, followed by a space character and the description itself, specified as a sequence of [[inline elements|00001007040000]].\nSimilar to terms, following lines can also be part of the actual description, if they begin at each line with exactly two space characters.\n\nIn contrast to terms, the actual descriptions are merged into a paragraph.\nThis is because, an actual description can contain more than one paragraph.\nAs usual, paragraphs are separated by an empty line.\nEvery following paragraph of an actual description must be indented by two space characters.\n\nExample:\n```zmk\n; Zettel\n: A zettel is the basic unit\n  of Zettelstore.\n\n  Zettel can be linked together.\n; Zettelstore\n: A software that manages zettel.\n: The name of the Go implementation.\n```\n\nis rendered as:\n:::example\n; Zettel\n: A zettel is the basic unit\n  of Zettelstore.\n\n  Zettel can be linked together.\n; Zettelstore\n: A software that manages zettel.\n: The name of the Go implementation.\n:::\n\nIf you look at the HTML code, you will see that \"\"Zettel\"\" has only one description with two paragraphs, while \"\"Zettelstore\"\" has two descriptions, each with one paragraph."))