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Whitespace

Whitespaces are space, tab, form feed (), and zero-width space (​). The carriage return (CR) and line feed (LF) are also whitespaces in the XHTML document. Whitespace characters will have no visual formatting effects. A number of whitespace will only compact to one space.

Heading

_h1 to _h6 are heading commands to describe the topic of a section. There are six levels. _h1 is the highest level (usually larger font) and _h6 is the lowest level. You need to set their attributes in the style sheet.

_body();
  _h1(); quote( "H1 Title" ); h1_();
  _h2(); quote( "H2 Title" ); h2_();
body_();

The _div command offers a generic mechanism to construct structure documents. _div defines block content. By using 'class' and 'id' attributes, authors may easily control the content in the block for presentation. _div along with inline block_span commands are prefered commands to separate structure and presentation.

div block

_div( "id='David' class='client'" );

span inline

  _span( "class='title'" );
    quote( "Client information:" ); 
  span_();

table

  _table( "class='data'" );
    _tr();
      _th(); quote( "Last name:" ); th_();
      _td(); quote( "David" ); td_();
    tr_();
    _tr(); 
      _th(); quote( "First name:" ); th_();
      _td(); quote( "Robert" ); td_();
    tr_();
    _tr();
      _th(); quote( "Tel:" ); th_();
      _td(); quote( "(905) 534-2812" ); td_();
    tr_();
    _tr(); 
      _th(); quote( "Email:" ); th_();
      _td(); quote( "robertd@neatware.com" ); td_();
    tr_();
  table_();
div_();

_p command defines a paragraph. It is also used as a newline in the Snaml. Its 'clear' attribute specifies the property that floats around another object. __br command forces a line break. The character ' ' is a real space.

Plain hyphen is just a regular character '-'. Usually a browser did not display soft hyphen if a line is not broken at a soft hyphen, otherwise it displays the '-' in the end of a line.

_pre command defines preformatted text. It will render the text content of the _pre command "as is". All the newline and space characters will be kept.

_p( "clear=right" );
  quote( "float paragraph" ); 
  __br();
  quote( "in the document." );
p_();

_pre();
  quote( "preformatted text with space and newline." );
pre_();        

The _span command separates the small text inline block. _br is a new line command. Usually it is used with an empty command __br. em and strong are emphasis and strong commonds.

The _em and _strong are two most common commands to make structural text. _em is emphasis (default italic) and _strong is strong emphasis (default bold).

_em(); quote( "The emphasis is italic." ); em_();
_strong(); quote( "The strong is blod." ); strong_();

Other commands work for special purposes. The _cite command is a citation or reference to other source; _dfn command is the defining instance of the enclosed term; _code command is used to represent computer code; and _samp command is for the sample output. In addition, _var command marks the instance of a variable; _abbr command tags abbreviated form; _acronym_kbd command represents the text to be entered by user. Finally, _sup and _sub mark the text as superscript and subscript.

_cite(); quote( "citation" ); cite_();
_dfn(); quote( "defining instance" ); dfn_();

_code(); quote( "computer code" ); code_();
_samp(); quote( "sample output" ); samp_();
_var(); quote( "variable" ); var_();
_abbr(); quote( "abbreviated form" ); abbr_();

_blockquote and _q command are for long and short quotation respectively. Browsers generally render _blockquote as an indented block. _q command generally shows text with delimiting quotation marks.

_blockquote( "id='group'" ); 
  quote( "block words." );
blockquote_();
_q(); quote( "quote words" ); q_();        

Finally, _ins and _del commands mark the sections of a document that has been inserted or deleted. They are rarely used.