Glorpdown


Glorpdown is plaintexty and mildly line-oriented, not totally unlike Gemtext. (Although at this point also a little less similar to Gemtext than it used to be.) I use it for this website.

This is kind of documentation, maybe mostly test page.

Headings

Lines that start with #, ## or ###.

# one
## two
### three

one

two

three

Quotes

Lines that start with >.

> blep

blep

Horizontal line

Lines that start with at least three --characters.

---

Lists

Lines that start with *.

* one
* two

Preformatted text

Lines that starts with at least two `-characters. Following lines are preformatted text, until there's a line that starts with the same number of `-characters. Text-part of line that turns preformatted text off is caption. (Text-part of the one that turns it on can potentially be picked up by renderer for rendering things differently or something.)

This:

``
code here
```
not turned off yet so things are still code
`` Description of the code

Is rendered as:

code here

not turned off yet so things are still code


## Drawings

Preformatted but with "drawing" on the turn-on-line:
asdblep
A drawing
``` drawing
                 .-----+
.------+--.   .->|`asd`|
|`blep`|  |  /   '-----+
'------+--+-'
``` A drawing

## Img
Probably a dog

``` img
https://loremflickr.com/320/240/dog
``` Probably a dog

## Text

Other lines are empty or they're lines with regular text. Text can be formatted a little. Text between two `\``-characters is code. Text between two `_`-characters is emphasized. Formatting cannot be nested. `\\` is used for escaping. Escaping works for any character, but can be useful for formatting characters, escape characters, and characters at the start of a line (e.g. if you want a regular text line to start with `=>`).

```
\=> Text line with `code with \`-character` and _emphasis with `-character_.
```

\=> Text line with `code with \`-character` and _emphasis with `-character_.

And `^` is used for links. Mostly same mechanism as for formatting. So you cannot emphasise text within a link and so on...

```
^https://dailyotter.org/^ and ^https://dailybunny.org/ bunny^.
```

^https://dailyotter.org/^ and ^https://dailybunny.org/ bunny^.

## Key-value pairs

Lines that start with `:` followed by and then some non-whitespace character. Stuff directly after the `:` is the key. The text part of the line is the value. Used for some things. This page has a ^./datetime.txt timestamp^ and a description kind of attached to the first heading:

```
# Glorpdown
:pub Zk7NML
:blurb Dawn of glorp.
```

Okay I think that's mostly it.