title: Zettelmarkup: Inline-Structured Elements role: manual tags: #manual #zettelmarkup #zettelstore syntax: zmk back: 00001007000000 00001007010000 00001007030000 00001007030100 00001007030200 00001007030300 00001007030400 00001007030600 00001007030700 00001007030800 00001007031000 00001007031110 00001007040310 00001007040324 00001007040340 00001007040350 00001007800000 00001007903000 00001007990000 00001012931000 backward: 00001007000000 00001007010000 00001007030000 00001007030100 00001007030200 00001007030300 00001007030400 00001007030600 00001007030700 00001007030800 00001007031000 00001007031110 00001007040310 00001007040324 00001007040340 00001007040350 00001007050000 00001007800000 00001007903000 00001007990000 00001012931000 box-number: 1 copyright: (c) 2020-present by Detlef Stern created: 20210126175322 forward: 00001007040100 00001007040200 00001007040300 00001007040330 00001007050000 lang: en license: EUPL-1.2-or-later modified: 20260302155410 published: 20260302155410 visibility: public Most characters you type are concerned with inline-structured elements. The content of a zettel contains in many cases just ordinary text, lightly formatted. Inline-structured elements make it possible to format your text and add some helpful links or images. Sometimes, you want to enter characters that have no representation on your keyboard. # Other inline elements ## Comment A comment begins with two consecutive percent sign characters (“`%`”, U+0025). It ends at the end of the line where it begins. If a line ends with an empty comment, the line break is converted from a *soft break* into a *hard break*. An empty comment either contains no text at all or only whitespace characters. ## Backslash The backslash character (“`\`”, U+005C) gives the next character another meaning. * If a space character follows, it is converted into a non-breaking space (U+00A0). * Every other character is taken as itself, but without the interpretation of a Zettelmarkup element. For example, if you want to enter a “`]`” into a [footnote text](00001007040330), you should escape it with a backslash. ## Entities & more Sometimes it is not easy to enter special characters. If you know the Unicode code point of that character, or its name according to the [HTML standard](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/named-characters.html), you can enter it by number or by name. Regardless which method you use, an entity always begins with an ampersand character (“`&`”, U+0026) and ends with a semicolon character (“`;`”, U+003B). If you know the HTML name of the character you want to enter, put it between these two characters. Example: `&` is rendered as &. If you want to enter its numeric code point, a number sign character must follow the ampersand character, followed by digits to base 10. Example: `&` is rendered in HTML as &. You also can enter its numeric code point as a hex number, if you put the letter “x” after the numeric sign character. Example: `&` is rendered in HTML as &. According to the [HTML Standard](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#character-references), some numeric code points are not allowed. These are all code point below the numeric value 32 (decimal) or 0x20 (hex) and all code points for [noncharacter](https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#noncharacter) values. Since some Unicode characters are used quite often, a special notation is introduced for them: * Two consecutive hyphen-minus characters result in an *en-dash* character. It is typically used in numeric ranges. `pages 4--7` will be rendered in HTML as: pages 4–7. Alternative specifications are: `–`, `舑`, and `–`.