title: Zettelmarkup: Verse Blocks role: manual tags: #manual #zettelmarkup #zettelstore syntax: zmk back: 00001007030000 00001007800000 00001012920513 backward: 00001007030000 00001007800000 00001012920513 box-number: 1 copyright: (c) 2020-present by Detlef Stern created: 00010101000000 forward: 00001007040000 00001007050000 lang: en license: EUPL-1.2-or-later modified: 20220218132432 published: 20220218132432 visibility: public Sometimes, you want to enter text with significant space characters at the beginning of each line and with significant line endings. Poetry is one typical example. Of course, you could help yourself with hard space characters and hard line breaks, by entering a backslash character before a space character and at the end of each line. Using a verse block might be easier. This kind of line-range block begins with at least three quotation mark characters (", U+0022) at the first position of a line. You can add some [attributes](00001007050000) on the beginning line of a verse block, following the initiating characters. The verse block does not support the default attribute, nor the generic attribute. Attributes are interpreted on HTML rendering. Any other character in this line will be ignored. Text following the beginning line will 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 a verse block within a verse block. At the ending line, you can enter some [inline elements](00001007040000) after the quotation mark characters. These will interpreted as some attribution text. For example: """" A verse block with an embedded verse block """{.zs-deprecated} Embedded verse block """ Embedded Author """" Verse Author will be rendered as: