(zettel (meta (back "00001007030000 00001007030800 00001007800000 00001007990000 00001008000000 00001012920513") (backward "00001007030000 00001007030800 00001007800000 00001007990000 00001008000000 00001012920513") (box-name "manual") (created "20210126175322") (forward "00001007040000") (modified "20260723170654") (published "20260723170654") (role "manual") (syntax "zmk") (tags "#manual #zettelmarkup #zettelstore") (title "Zettelmarkup: Description Lists")) (rights read) (content "" "A description list consists of alternating terms and descriptions (short: __details__).\nEach detail contains one or more __entries__, allowing a term to be described in multiple ways.\n\nA description term (short: __term__) begins with a single semicolon (\"\"'';''\"\", U+003B) at the beginning of the line, followed by a space character and the term itself, which consists of a sequence of line elements.\nIf subsequent lines should also be part of the term, two spaces must be given at the beginning of each line.\n\nEach entry of a detail begins with a single colon (\"\"'':''\"\", U+003A) at the beginning of the line, followed by a space character and the entry text, which consists of a sequence of [[inline elements|00001007040000]].\nAs with terms, subsequent lines may also be part of the description if they begin with two space characters.\n\nIn contrast to terms, the content of an entry is merged into paragraphs: consecutive lines are combined into a single paragraph, while empty lines start new paragraphs.\nAn entry may contain more than one paragraph.\nEvery additional paragraph of an entry 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 piece of 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 piece of software that manages zettel.\n: The name of the Go implementation.\n:::\n\nIf you look at the HTML code, you will see that the term \"\"Zettel\"\" has only one entry with two paragraphs, whereas \"\"Zettelstore\"\" has two entries, each containing a single paragraph.[^An entry is mapped to HTML's ``<dd>`` tag]"))