wml::fmt::verbatim(3)

💖 wml::fmt::verbatim — the EN Tools girlies' fave 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about wml::fmt::verbatim — it's a section 3 manual page and it's literally the "Really Preformatted Verbatim Text" module. no cap. it does exactly what it says and it does it flawlessly. 💅

---

✨ NAME ✨

wml::fmt::verbatim — Really Preformatted Verbatim Text 🫶

---

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#use wml::fmt::verbatim

<verbatim>
Text with <,> and & characters,
    leading whitespaces and
pre  formatted   blocks
</verbatim>

#     To include the file ``bar'' verbatim
<verbatim-file src="bar">

---

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically it's an enhanced "<pre>" tag, but make it actually plain text. like, it really formats as plain text — it escapes the characters "<", ">" and "&". that's the whole vibe. 🌸

the usage is simple, bestie, don't overthink it: just surround your text with the "<verbatim>" container tag and everything inside becomes really verbatim text. it's giving preformatted area with all the problematic character sequences escaped. periodt. 🔥

ngl the way that this just works with zero drama? iconic. every <, >, and & gets handled so nothing breaks your page. 🧚

---

👑 AUTHOR 👑

• Ralf S. Engelschall
• rse@engelschall.com
• www.engelschall.com

shoutout to the author, main character energy fr fr. 💜

---

⭐ REQUIRES ⭐

• Internal: P1, P6
• External: --

(yes the external list is literally empty, and that's on purpose, no notes. 💀)

---

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• HTML "<pre>" tag

---

and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓 — this was wml::fmt::verbatim(3) from the EN Tools collection, version dated 2020-11-29. go forth and format verbatim, you've got this 💖✨🎀