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###. Comments begin with three (3) '#' signs followed by a full-stop period '.'.
Comments can span multiple lines until a blank line is reached.

###..
Multi-line comments (including blank lines) are indicated by three (3) '#'
signs followed by two (2) full-stop periods '..'.

This line is also part of the above comment.

The comment continues until the next block element is reached

p. This line is not commented

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respected -->

###. Paragraphs are a one or multiple adjacent lines of text separated by one or
multiple blank lines. They can also be indicated explicitly with a 'p. '

This is a paragraph. I'm typing in a paragraph isn't this fun?

Now I'm in paragraph 2.
I'm still in paragraph 2 too!
Line breaks without blank spaces are equivalent to a <br /> in XHTML.

p. I'm an explicitly defined paragraph

 Lines starting with a blank space are not wrapped in <p>..</p> tags.

###. Paragraphs (and all block elements) can be aligned using shorthand:

p<. Left aligned paragraph (default).

p>. Right aligned paragraph.

p=. Centered paragraph.

p<>. Justified paragraph.

h3>. Right aligned <h3>


###. Paragraphs can be indented using a parentheses for each em
Indentation utilizes padding-[left/right] css styles.

p(. Left indent 1em.

p((. Left indent 2em.

p))). Right indent 3em.

h2). This is equivalent to <h2 style="padding-right: 1em;">..</h2>


###. Block quotes use the tag 'bq.'

bq. This is a block quote.

bq.:http://someurl.com You can include a citation URL immediately after the '.'

bq.. Multi-line blockquotes containing

blank lines are indicated using two periods

p. Multi-line blockquotes continue until a new block element is reached.

bq. You can add a footer to a blockquote using html:
<footer>citation text</footer>


###. Preformatted text blocks:

pre. This text is preformatted.  <= those two spaces will carry through.

pre.. This is a multi-line preformatted…

…text block that includes blank lines

p. End a multi-line preformatted text block with a new block element.

h1. This is an <h1>

h2. This is an <h2>

h3. This is an <h3>

h4. This is an <h4>

h5. This is an <h5>

h6. This is an <h6>

###. Bold and strong text are indicated using asterisks:

*This is strong text*
**This is bold text**
This is [*B*]old text within a word.

*Strong* and **Bold** usually display the same in browsers
but they use different HTML markup, thus the distinction.

###. Italics and emphasized text are indicated using underscores.

_This is Emphasized text_
__This is Italics text__
This is It[_al_]ics within a word.

_Emphasized_ and __Italics__ text typically display the same in browsers,
but again, they use different HTML markup and thus the distinction.

###. Superscripts and Subscripts use carats and tildes:

Superscripts are 2 ^and^ to none, but subscripts are CO ~2~ L too.
Note the spaces around the superscripts and subscripts.

To avoid the spaces, add square brackets around them:
2[^and^] and CO[~2~]L

###. Insertions and deletions are indicated using -/+ symbols:
This is -deleted- text and this is +inserted+ text.

###. Citations are indicated using double '?':

??This is a cool citation??

###. Unordered lists can be made using asterisks '*' to indicate levels:

* Item
** Sub-Item
* Another item
** Another sub-item
** Yet another sub-item
*** Three levels deep

###. Ordered lists are done with a pound sign '#':

# Item one
# Item two
## Item two-a
## Item two-b
# Item three
** Mixed unordered list within ordered list

###. Ordered lists can start above 1 and can continue after another block:

#5 Item 5
# Item 6

additional paragraph

#_ Item 7 continued from above
# Item 8

###. Definition lists are indicated with a dash and assignment:

- First item := first item definition
- Second := second def.
- Multi-line :=
Multi-line
definition =:

Code blocks use the 'bc.' shorthand:

bc. This is code
    So is this

This is outside of the code block

bc.. This is a multi-line code block

Blank lines are included in the multi-line code block

p. End a multi-line code block with any block element

p. Indicate @inline code@ using the '@' symbol.

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###. Link text is in quotes, followed by a colon and the URL:

"Link text":http://linkurl.com/ plain text.

"Titles go in parentheses at the end of the link text"(mytitle):http://url.com
###. produces <a href... title="mytitle">...</a>

###. Use square brackets when the link text or URL might be ambiguous:
["Textile on Wikipedia":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_(markup_language)]

###. Named links are useful if the same URL is referenced multiple times.
Multiple "references":txstyle to the "txstyle":txstyle website.

[txstyle]https://txstyle.org/

###. Images can be included by surrounding its URL with exclamation marks (!)
Alt text is included in parenthesis after the URL, and they can be linked too:

!http://imageurl.com!

!http://imageurl.com(image alt-text)!

!http://imageurl.com(alt-text)!:http://image-link-url.com

A footnote is indicated with the reference id in square brackets.[1]

fn1. Footnote text with a "link":http://link.com.

A footnote without a link.[2!]

fn2. The corresponding unlinked footnote.

A footnote with a backlink from the footnote back to the text.[3]

fn3^. This footnote links back to the in-text citation.


Endnotes are automatically numbered[#first] and are indicated using square[#second]
brackets and a key value[#first]. They can also be unlinked[#unlinkednote!]

###. Give the endnotes text:

note#first. This is the first endnote text.

note#second. This is the second text.

note#unlinkednote. This one isn't linked from the text.

### Use the notelist block to place the list of notes in the text:
This list will start with #1. Can also use alpha or Greeks.
notelist:1. ###. start at 1 (then 2, 3, 4...)
notelist:c. ###. start at c (then d, e, f...)
notelist:α. ###. start at α (then β, γ, δ...)

###. The notelist syntax is as follows:

notelist.    Notes with backlinks to every citation made to them.
notelist+.   Notes with backlinks to every citation made to them,
               followed by the unreferenced notes.
notelist^.   Notes with one backlink to the first citation made to each note.
notelist^+.  Notes with one backlink to the first citation made to each note,
               followed by unreferenced notes.
notelist!.   Notes with no backlinks to the citations.
notelist!+.  Notes with no backlinks to the citations, followed by 
               unreferenced notes.

###. Tables are simple to define using the pipe '|' symbol

| A | simple | table | row |
| And | another | table | row |
| With an | | empty | cell |

###. Headers are preceded by '|_.'
|_. First Header |_. Second Header |
| Content Cell | Content Cell |

###. The <thead> tag is added when |^. above and |-. below the heading are used.

|^.
|_. First Header |_. Second Header |
|-.
| Content Cell | Content Cell |
| Content Cell | Content Cell |

###. The <tfoot> tag is added when |~. above and |-. below the footer are used.

|~.
|\2=. A footer, centered & across two columns |
|-.
| Content Cell | Content Cell |
| Content Cell | Content Cell |

###. Attributes are be applied either to individual cells, rows, or to
the entire table. Cell attributes are placed within each cell:

|a|{color:red}. styled|cell|

###. Row attributes are placed at the beginning of a row,
followed by a dot and a space:

(rowclass). |a|classy|row|

###. Table attributes are specified by placing the special 'table.' block
modifier immediately before the table:

table(tableclass).
|a|classy|table|
|a|classy|table|

###. Spanning rows and columns:
A backslash \ is used for a column span:

|\2. spans two cols |
| col 1 | col 2 |

###. A forward slash / is used for a row span:

|/3. spans 3 rows | row a |
| row b |
| row c |

###. Vertical alignments within a table cell:

|^. top alignment|
|-. middle alignment|
|~. bottom alignment|

###. Horizontal alignments within a table cell

|:\1. |400|
|=. center alignment |
| no alignment |
|>. right alignment |

Col 1 | Col2 | Col3
:-- | :-: | --:
Ugh this is so ugly | make it | stop

RegisteredTrademark(r), Trademark(tm), Copyright (c)

###. Acronym definitions can be provided in parentheses:

EPA(Environmental Protection Agency) and CDC(Center for Disease Control)

### Angled brackets < and > and ampersands & are automatically escaped:
< => &lt;
> => &gt;
& => &amp;

p. Three consecutive periods are translated into ellipses...automatically

###. En dashes (short) is a hyphen surrounded by spaces:

This line uses an en dash to separate Oct - Nov 2018.

###. Em dashes (long) are two hyphens with or without spaces:

This is an em dash--used to separate clauses.
But we can also use it with spaces -- which is a less-used convention.
That last hyphen between 'less' and 'used' is not converted between words.

One quarter: (1/4) => ¼
One half: (1/2) => ½
Three quarters: (3/4) => ¾
Degree: (o) => °
Plus/minus: (+/-) => ±

p. Numbers separated by the letter 'x' translate to the multiplication
or dimension symbol '×':
3 x 5 => 3 × 5

###. Straight quotes and apostrophes are automatically converted to
their curly equivalents:

"these", 'these', and this'n are converted to their HTML entity equivalents.
Leave them straight using '==' around the text: =="straight quotes"==.

p{color:blue}. CSS Styles are enclosed in curly braces '{}'
p(my-class). Classes are enclosed in parenthesis
p(#my-id). IDs are enclosed in parentheses and prefaced with a pound '#'.

%spans% are enclosed in percent symbols
div. Divs are indicated by the 'div.' shorthand