PlainText

plaintext is the most basic content type. Paragraphs are only separated by blank lines. This documents also details basic wrapping behavior.

language: "plaintext"

Long lines are split at whitespace and wrapped.

A long line.      ->      A long  ¦
        ¦                 line.   ¦

Short lines are concatenated and then wrapped as appropriate.

Three.        ¦      ->      Three. Short. ¦
Short.        ¦              Lines.        ¦
Lines.        ¦

Words that are longer than the wrapping width (like URLs) will be put on a new line but won't be broken up.

Go to www.example.com      ->      Go to    ¦
         ¦                         www.example.com

Paragraphs are separated by blank lines.

Foo bar baz.      ->      Foo bar  ¦
         ¦                baz.     ¦
Foo      ¦                         ¦
bar.     ¦                Foo bar. ¦

The indent of all lines is kept as is was:

one two three                             one two     ¦
  four five six                   ->        three four¦
 seven eight¦                              five six   ¦
            ¦                              seven eight¦

PlainText-IndentSeparated

With the plaintext-indentseparated processor, a difference in line indent does start a new paragraph.

language: plaintext-indentseparated

Foo bar baz.                              Foo bar   ¦
 Foo      ¦                       ->      baz.      ¦
 bar.     ¦                                Foo bar. ¦

Paragraph     ¦                           Paragraph one.¦
one.          ¦                            Paragraph    ¦
 Paragraph two.                   ->       two.         ¦
Paragraph three.                          Paragraph     ¦
              ¦                           three.        ¦

Also works with tab characters. In the case of mixed spaces and tabs, it's the indent width that counts, not the actual characters.

language: plaintext-indentseparated, tabWidth: 2

Paragraph one.  ¦                         Paragraph one.  ¦
-→Paragraph     ¦                 ->      -→Paragraph two.¦
··two.          ¦                         ·Paragraph      ¦
·Paragraph three.                         ·three.         ¦