Colon Blocks

Orgmode Elements > Colon Blocks

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Colon blocks are blocks such as following example:

: Lines that start with a colon and a space
: are colon blocks.

In contrast to the definition of Org-mode colon blocks, they must not be intended for lazyblorg.

Colon blocks are the safest way to embed characters of any kind. Their text format and line breaks are preserved, nothing gets interpreted or replaced. Therefore, colon-blocks do miss some sanitizing on purpose:

HTML chars	Int. L.	Ext. L.	Text Format	URL Ampersands	Pandoc	Templates involved
x						#NAME#