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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Introducing Glyph Macros - Glyph</title> <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Crimson+Text:400,400italic,600,600italic,700,700italic' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <meta name="author" content="Fabio Cevasco" /> <meta name="robots" content="all, follow" /> <meta name="Revisit-After" content="2 Days" /> <meta name="description" content="H3RALD - Fabio Cevasco's Web Site" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <meta name="keywords" content="h3rald, fabio cevasco, glyph, ruby, opensource" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.png" type="image/png" /> <meta content="44.388041;9.073248" name="ICBM" /> <!-- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles/style.css" /> --> <!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script> <![endif]--> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles/bootstrap.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles/style.css" /> <script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi?key=ABQIAAAAr6RY1Z6dchG_sX9WDLSy3xRlq2n1sm52B5HDRR5tm6o8XM18FhR56xHNNH6CsX86uN5VoTrglpyOyQ" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/sevenup.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/sevenup_black.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/jquery-timeago.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/date.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/feeds.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/hyphenator.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/init.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/search.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/bootstrap.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <body> <div class="container"> <div class="row" id="header-row"> <div class="span6 main-title"> <h1> <a href="/"><img src="/img/h3rald.png" alt="H3RALD" /></a> </h1> </div> <div class="span4 offset2"> <div class="gcse-searchbox" data-enableAutoComplete="true"></div> </div> </div> <div id="search_results"> <div class="gcse-searchresults" data-linkTarget="_top"></div> </div> <div id=main-navbar class="navbar navbar-inverse"> <div class="navbar-inner"> <button type="button" class="btn btn-navbar" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse"> <span class="icon-bar"></span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> </button> <div class="nav-collapse collapse"> <ul class="nav"> <li><a href="/">HOME</a></li> <li><a href="/projects/">PROJECTS</a></li> <li><a href="/tags/">TAGS</a></li> <li><a href="/archives/">ARCHIVES</a></li> <li><a href="/about/">ABOUT</a></li> <li><a href="/contact/">CONTACT</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container"> <article class="page"> <header class="row"> <hgroup class="span9"> <h1>Introducing Glyph Macros</h1> <h2>Glyph</h2> </hgroup> </header> <section id="body-text" class="hyphenate"> <nav class="navigation"><a href="/glyph/book/text_editing/glyph_files.html">← <code>.glyph</code> files</a> | <a href="/glyph/book/index.html">Contents</a> | <a href="/glyph/book/text_editing/attribute_intro.html">Macro attributes →</a></nav> <p>The most important concept to grasp about Glyph is the concept of <em>macro</em>.</p> <p>A Glyph macro is, in a nutshell, an identifier of some kind that wraps a value or parameters within square brackets. More specifically:</p> <ul> <li>The macro identifier can contain <em>any</em> character except for: <code>[</code>, <code>]</code>, <code>\</code>, <code>|</code>, <code>@</code> or spaces.</li> <li>The delimiters can be either <code>[</code> and <code>]</code> or <code>[=</code> and <code>=]</code> (<span class="fmi">for more information on <mark>differences between delimiters</mark>, see <a href="/glyph/book/text_editing/esc_quot.html#esc_quot">Escaping and Quoting</a></span>).</li> <li>The value can be anything, even other macros. If a macro supports more than one parameter, they must be separated with <code>|</code>. For example, the <a href="/glyph/book/macros/macros_inline.html#m_link"><code>link</code></a> macro can take an optional second parameter for the link text: <code>link[#link_id|This is the link text]</code>.</li> <li>A macro can also have <em>attributes</em>, which look exactly like macros but their identifier starts with a <code>@</code>.</li> </ul> <p>A macro can often have one or more aliases. For example, <code>=></code> is an alias for the <a href="/glyph/book/macros/macros_inline.html#m_link"><code>link</code></a> macro, so the following macro calls are equivalent:</p> <ul> <li><code>=>[#test|Test Section]</code></li> <li><code>link[#test|Test Section]</code></li> </ul> <nav class="navigation"><a href="/glyph/book/text_editing/glyph_files.html">← <code>.glyph</code> files</a> | <a href="/glyph/book/index.html">Contents</a> | <a href="/glyph/book/text_editing/attribute_intro.html">Macro attributes →</a></nav> </section> </article> </div> <footer> <section> <p>H3RALD Web Site v8.3 © 2004 — 2013 <em>Fabio Cevasco</em></p> </section> </footer> <!-- Start Google Analytics --> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-18587377-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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