(the text becomes the "alt" attribute of the image)YAM (Yet Another Markup) is a simple wiki language used in GATEWiki. The language syntax is described below.
Contents listings like that above are generated by '%contents'
Bold text is contained in stars: *this is bold* becomes this is bold.
Italic text is contained in underscores: _this is italic_ becomes this is italic.
Fixed-width text is contained in carat signs: ^this is teletype^ becomes this is teletype.
Underlined text is contained in doubles undercores: __this is underlined__ becomes this is underlined.
Horizontal lines are indicated by 3 or more dashes at the start of a line. For example:
---
and
---------------------------
both result in:
Unordered lists are indicated by '-' at the start of a line, and ordered lists by '#'. Nesting is indicated by increased spacing preceding the item indicator. For example:
- This is an undordered list - Second item # This is a nested... # ...ordered list - Back to the third item of the enclosing list
results in:
The precise size of the indentation of embedded lists doesn't matter, it just needs to be larger than that of the enclosing list.
Lists end when there is a blank line or where the next line of text is not indented. For example:
- This is a one item list followed by - another one item list.
results in:
followed by
Note: lists embedded in tables have to start on a new line, just like elsewhere; in tables a syntax error will result if the list starts on the same line as the rest of the row.
Verbatim output starts with '%<' and ends with '%>'. For example:
%< This will *not* get translated. %>
When the target language is HTML, for example, the output will contain '<pre>' tags.
Footnotes are like this:
%footnote(This is a footnote.)
Becomes:1.
The contents will be put in a section at the end of the document (HTML) or at the bottom of the page (LaTeX), and linked by number from where they occured.
To stop a special character from being interpreted, use a '\'. For example,
\---
will not generate a line.
The title of a document is the first paragraph of the document, ending in one or more blank lines. (Often this will be a single line of text.)
Headings are lines starting with %1 (for first level), %2, %3 or %4 and are followed by one or more blank lines. For example, the heading for this section is
%1 Headings
If a heading level is followed by "*" it is not numbered, e.g.:
%1* An unnumbered heading
Becomes:
This heading will not appear in the contents table.
Links can be specified in three ways:
Spaces or commas inside %(...) format URLs must be escaped. A URL that appears in plain text must be followed by a space, tab or newline. Sometimes, you might need to follow a URL with something other than a space, tab, or newline, for example when applying other formatting characters. To do this, use a bracketed form. e.g. to teletype a URL, ^%(http://gate.ac.uk/)^ becomes http://gate.ac.uk/.
Anchors and labels are specified using '%#name'. For example,
%1 A Heading %#label
will result in a heading followed by the anchor label. To refer back (or forward) to the anchor, use a "#" in the link, e.g.
%(#tables, tables)
will result in tables.
Spaces or commas inside anchors must be escaped. An anchor that appears in plain text must be followed by a space, tab or newline.
A relative link to a non-existant file will be rendered as a link to the host
application's "create" page, e.g.
%(../non-existant.html)
becomes:
../non-existant.html
A link to an existing file will be just link as normal, e.g.
%(index.html)
becomes:
index.html
Block quotations are enclosed in %" marks. For example,
%"This is a quote%"
becomes:
This is a quote
Note that because the quote marks are treated as normal words, they can cause overlap problems (in the same way that an unclosed bold or italic mark might). For example,
%" - list %"
is not a good idea as the end of the quote will preceed the end of the list. The workaround is to close the list first by adding a blank line:
%" - list %"
which then results in something sensible:
- list
Line breaks are indicated by %br at the end of a line. For example:
This line is broken %br in two.
becomes:
This line is broken
in two.
Tables use square brackets, bars and dashes. For example:
%[ | *header col 1* | *header col 2* | --- | row 1 col 1 | col 2 | --- | row 2 col 1 | col 2 | %]
results in:
| header col 1 | header col 2 |
| row 1 col 1 | col 2 |
| row 2 col 1 | col 2 |
To include a | in normal text escape it like this: \|.
(See also the note above about embedding lists in tables.)
Images are like URLs:
(the text becomes the "alt" attribute of the image)You can also specify an ALT tag, width and height, position and border width:
'%image(test-image.png, ALT tag, 500, 500, left, 0)' becomes
Citations work like this: '%cite(Cun06a)' becomes Cun06a. Multiple cite keys should be separated by commas, e.g.: '%cite(Cun05a,Cun06a)' becomes Cun05a, Cun06a.
A page can include another page like this:
%include(yam-first.yam)
This results in the inclusion of all the text from yam-first.yam in this file.
An increment to be added to the heading level can be given as the first argument.
Note that the titles in the included files are ignored by default. A "useTitle" flag can be given (after the increment if it exists) to cause inclusion of the title (as a heading). For example: %include(1, useTitle, yam-first.yam).
Non-breaking spaces are added using %\ followed by space, e.g.
This line %\ %\ %\ %\ has spaces in the middle.
This line has spaces in the middle.
Single-line comments are created by two or more percents together, e.g.
This is not commented %% but this is
becomes:
This is not commented
Multi-line comments are created by %/* and %*/, e.g.
This is not commented %/* but this is and this is too %*/
becomes:
This is not commented
YAM can be extended by the use of plugins. Creating plugins requires some Java programming - see the developer guide for more details.
Plugins bundled with GATEWiki:
YAM is currently in version 5. Since versions 3 and 4 these changes were made: