APT格式总结

1 段落和页面元素通过空行来分割（open lines）

A file contains a sequence of paragraphs and "displays'' (non paragraphs such as tables) separated by open lines.

 

2 一个段落由连续的文本行组成

A paragraph is simply a sequence of consecutive text lines

 

3 段落中第一行的缩进是APT处理器识别段落类型的主要依据，例如：章节标题不能有缩进

The indentation of the first line of a paragraph is the main method used by an APT processor to recognize the type of the paragraph. For example, a section title must not be indented at all.

 

4 一个简单（plain）的段落必须有一定量的空格缩进，例如：不包含在列表中的一个简短的段落可能具有2个空格的缩进

A "plain'' paragraph must be indented by a certain amount of space. For example, a plain paragraph which is not contained in a list may be indented by two spaces.

 

5 缩进没有严格规定，任意多个空格都可以。在你整个的文档中，根本不需要使用前后一致的缩进。APT处理器真正关注的是一个段落是否根本就没有缩进，或者在一个列表中，一个段落比第一个列表项有更多还是更少的缩进。

Indentation is not rigid. Any amount of space will do. You don't even need to use a consistent indentation all over your document. What really matters for an APT processor is whether the paragraph is not indented at all or, when inside a list, whether a paragraph is more or less indented than the first item of the list (more about this later).

 

6 一个tab被扩展为8个空格

Note that tabs are expanded with a tab width set to 8.

 

7 块级元素包含：标题（Title）、段落（Paragraph）、章节（Section）、列表（List）、预格式化文本（Verbatim text）、图形（Figure）、表格（Table）、水平线（Horizontal rule）、分页符（Page break）

 

8 行内元素包含：字体（Font）、超链接（Anchor and link）、换行符（Line break）、Non breaking space、转义字符（Special character）、注释（Comment）