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From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
Subject: Re: Summary of syntax?
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:10:29 +0100
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"Alan Schmitt" <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:

Hi Alan,

> I was just reading a document in org mode that had some code written
> like this:
>
> : make
> : make install
>
> I wanted to know more about this syntax (colon at the start of the
> line), so I went to the manual and searched for it.

Here it is.

,----[ (info "(org)Literal examples") ]
| For simplicity when using small examples, you can also start
| the example lines with a colon followed by a space.  There may also be
| additional whitespace before the colon:
| 
|      Here is an example
|         : Some example from a text file.
`----

> Unfortunately I could not find it, nor could I find a summary of the
> syntax for org files.
>
> Is there a syntax reference card somewhere?

Not that I know of...

Bye,
Tassilo