title: Zettelmarkup: Summary of Formatting Characters
role: manual
tags: #manual #reference #zettelmarkup #zettelstore
syntax: zmk

The following table gives an overview about the use of all characters that begin a markup element.

|= Character :|= [[Blocks|00001007030000]] <|= [[Inlines|00001007040000]] <
| ''!''  | (free) | (free)
| ''"''  | [[Verse block|00001007030700]] | [[Short inline quote|00001007040100]]
| ''#''  | [[Ordered list|00001007030200]] | [[marked / highlighted text|00001007040100]]
| ''$''  | (reserved) | (reserved)
| ''%''  | [[Comment block|00001007030900]] | [[Comment|00001007040000]]
| ''&''  | (free) | [[Entity|00001007040000]]
| ''\'''  | (free)  | [[Computer input|00001007040200]]
| ''(''  | (free) | (free)
| '')''  | (free) | (free)
| ''*''  | [[Unordered list|00001007030200]] | [[strongly emphasized text|00001007040100]]
| ''+''  | (reserved) | (reserved)
| '',''  | (free) | [[Sub-scripted text|00001007040100]]
| ''-''  | [[Horizontal rule|00001007030400]] | ""[[en-dash|00001007040000]]""
| ''.''  | (free) | (free)
| ''/''  | (free) | (free)
| '':''  | [[Region block|00001007030800]] / [[description text|00001007030100]] | [[Inline region|00001007040100]]
| '';''  | [[Description term|00001007030100]] | (free)
| ''<''  | [[Quotation block|00001007030600]] | (free)
| ''=''  | [[Headings|00001007030300]] | [[Computer output|00001007040200]]
| ''>''  | [[Quotation lists|00001007030200]] | [[Inserted text|00001007040100]]
| ''?''  | (free) | (free)
| ''@''  | [[Inline-Zettel block|00001007031200]] | [[Inline-zettel snippet|00001007040200#inline-zettel-snippet]]
| ''[''  | (reserved)  | [[Linked material|00001007040300]], [[citation key|00001007040300]], [[footnote|00001007040300]], [[mark|00001007040300]]
| ''\\'' | (blocked by inline meaning) | [[Escape character|00001007040000]]
| '']''  | (reserved) | End of [[link|00001007040300]], [[citation key|00001007040300]], [[footnote|00001007040300]], [[mark|00001007040300]]
| ''^''  | (free) | [[Super-scripted text|00001007040100]]
| ''_''  | (free) | [[Emphasized text|00001007040100]]
| ''`''  | [[Verbatim block|00001007030500]] | [[Literal text|00001007040200]]
| ''{''  | [[Transclusion|00001007031100]] | [[Embedded material|00001007040300]], [[Attribute|00001007050000]]
| ''|''  | [[Table row / table cell|00001007031000]] | Separator within link and [[embed|00001007040320]] formatting
| ''}''  | End of [[Transclusion|00001007031100]] | End of embedded material, End of Attribute
| ''~''  | [[Evaluation block|00001007031300]] | [[Deleted text|00001007040100]]