title: Zettelmarkup: Verbatim Blocks role: manual tags: #manual #zettelmarkup #zettelstore syntax: zmk back: 00001007030000 00001007030900 00001007040200 00001007800000 backward: 00001007030000 00001007030900 00001007040200 00001007800000 box-number: 1 copyright: (c) 2020-present by Detlef Stern created: 20210126175322 forward: 00001007050000 00001007050200 lang: en license: EUPL-1.2-or-later modified: 20251219141908 published: 20251219141908 visibility: public Verbatim blocks are used to enter text that should not be interpreted. They begin with at least three grave accent characters (“```”, U+0060) at the first position of a line. Alternatively, a modifier letter grave accent (“`ˋ`”, U+02CB) is also allowed. You can add some [attributes](00001007050000) on the beginning line of a verbatim block, following the initiating characters. The verbatim block supports the default attribute: when given, all spaces in the text are rendered in HTML as open box characters (U+2423). If you want to provide only the generic attribute, you can omit most of the attribute syntax and specify just the value. It will be interpreted as a ([programming](00001007050200)) language to support colorizing the text when rendered in HTML. Any other character in this line will be ignored Text following the beginning line will not be interpreted, until a line begins with at least the same number of the same characters given at the beginning line. This allows to enter some grave accent characters in the text that should not be interpreted. For example: ````zmk ``` ```` will be rendered in HTML as: ```{-} This is some text with no real sense. ```` will be rendered as: