(zettel (meta (back "00001007900000") (backward "00001007900000 00001007906000") (box-number "1") (created "20220810182917") (forward "00001007000000 00001007040000 00001007906000") (modified "20231201135849") (published "20231201135849") (role "manual") (syntax "zmk") (tags "#manual #tutorial #zettelmarkup #zettelstore") (title "Zettelmarkup: First Steps")) (rights 4) (encoding "") (content "[[Zettelmarkup|00001007000000]] allows you to leave your text as it is, at least in many situations.\nSome characters have a special meaning, but you have to enter them is a defined way to see a visible change.\nZettelmarkup is designed to be used for zettel, which are relatively short.\nIt allows to produce longer texts, but you should probably use a different tool, if you want to produce an scientific paper, to name an example.\n\n=== Paragraphs\nThe most important concept of Zettelmarkup is the __paragraph__.\nOrdinary text is interpreted as part of a paragraph.\nParagraphs are typically separated by one or more blank lines.\n\nTherefore, line endings are more or less ignored within one paragraph.\nZettelmarkup will recognize the end of a line, and sore it as a \"\"soft break\".\nA soft break is rendered in most cases as a space character.\n\nWithin a paragraph you can style your text with [[special markup|00001007040000]].\nSome examples:\n\n|= Zettelmarkup | Rendered output | Instruction\n| ''An __emphasized__ word'' | An __emphasized__ word | Put two underscore characters before and after the text you want to emphasize\n| ''Someone uses **bold** text'' | Someone uses **bold** text | Put two asterisks before and after the text you want to see bold\n| ''He says: \"\"I love you!\"\"'' | Her says: \"\"I love you!\"\" | Put two quotation mark characters before and after the text you want to quote.\n\nYou probably see a principle.\n\nOne nice thing about the quotation mark characters: they are rendered according to the current language.\nExamples: \"\"english\"\"{lang=en}, \"\"french\"\"{lang=fr}, \"\"german\"\"{lang=de}.\nYou will see later, how to change the current language.\n\n=== Lists\nQuite often, text consists of lists.\nZettelmarkup supports different types of lists.\nThe most important lists are:\n* Unnumbered lists,\n* Numbered lists.\n\nYou produce an unnumbered list element by writing an asterisk character followed by a space character at the beginning of a line.\nSince a list typically consists of more than one element, the following elements will also start at their own line:\n\n```zmk\n* First item\n* Second item\n* Third item\n```\n\nThis is rendered as:\n\n:::example\n* First item\n* Second item\n* Third item\n:::\n\nSimilar, an numbered list element begins a line with the number sign (sic!) followed by a space character:\n\n```zmk\n# First item\n# Second item\n# Third item\n```\n\nThis is rendered as:\n\n:::example\n# First item\n# Second item\n# Third item\n:::\n\n---\nAfter trying out these markup elements, you might want to continue with the [[second steps|00001007906000]]."))