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== Pre-formatted text ==

Pre-formatted text starts with a colon and three spaces.  It will be displayed in a monospaced font, and will respect the line breaks and spacing that you have used.  But commands and other markup are still performed within the pre-formatted text as normal.

 :   This is preformatted,
 :       and can include any text, e.g., <, >, $, etc.,
 :       but [@ "commands" @] and other *mark up* are performed normally.

Pre-formatted sections can be indented.

 This is flush left.
     Here is some indenting
     :   with pre-formatting
     :   on several lines.
     Now back to normal, but indented.

== Verbatim text ==

If you want to prevent commands from being performed and show the characters literally, you use ''verbatim'' mode.  Surround the material that should be displayed verbatim with <code>[|...|]</code>.

 If you enter [|*bold*|] in PGML it will be *bold*

would produce "if you enter *bold* in PGML it will be '''bold'''".  Note that verbatim mode is restricted to one line at a time, it can't enclose a line break.

If you need to include <code>|]</code> within your verbatim section, use ''two'' vertical bars to start and end verbatim mode.

 You can use [|| [|...|] ||] to produce verbatim mode.

will produce "You can use [|...|] to produce verbatim mode.  In fact, you can use as many vertical bars as needed, as long as they are the same number at each end.

If you use an asterisk at the end of the verbatim, as in <code>[|WeBWorK|]*</code>, then the text will be printed in monospace font, like <span style="font-family:monospace;">WeBWorK</span>.

'''Note:''' some flavors of Markdown use back-ticks (<code>`</code>) to enter verbatim mode, but PGML isn't one of them.

== Code ==

If you want multiline verbatim text, as you might want when presenting a block of code, use three backticks to start and end a block of "code". Example:

 ```
 $a = 1;
 $b = $a + 1;
 ```


See also [[Special Characters - PGML|Escaping Special Characters]] for how to prevent the interpretation of special characters.

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