The @text directive declares what follows up to the next directive is text to be rendered onto the page. Blank lines result in new paragraphs.

Surrounding text with *s causes the text to be emphasized so

*asterisk*

gives asterisk. Surrounding text with `s causes the text to be displayed as code so

`grave`

is displayed as grave. Links can be embedded into the text by using [link text](link URL) or just [link text] if a link URL has already been (uniquely) defined for the link text. So

[This page](2000_Directives/Text)

gives This page. If the link is offsite then it will be forced to open in a new tab or window in the browser, for example Apple will open in a new tab in Safari. If the link URL contains a ) it will need currently to be replaced by a ) HTML entity code.

< and > in normal text will be replaced by HTML entity codes but not &. < and > escaped by *s will be replaced by HTML entity codes but not &. & will not be replaced by HTML entity codes < and > are not allowed. < > and & escaped by grave characters will be replaced by HTML entity codes.

Spell checking will be done for normal text, for emphasized text, and for link text, but not for grave escaped text.