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 <!--
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Lady <https://www.ladys.computer/about/#lady>
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024, 2025 Lady <https://www.ladys.computer/about/#lady>
 SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
 -->
 # 💄📝 Les·M·L
@@ -103,11 +103,18 @@ Non·empty paragraphs are classified as follows :⁠—
   There is only one level of paragraph quoting; quoted paragraphs may
     not be quoted again.
 
+- If every line in the paragraph begins with zero or more white·space
+    characters followed by `|`, it is a “preformatted” paragraph and
+    white·space is not collapsed (`<html:pre>`).
+  A paragraph may be both quoted and preformatted.
+
 - Otherwise, the paragraph is unquoted.
 
 After this classification, each quoted or unquoted paragraph is further
   classified by type based on its first character (which is must be
-   followed by white·space to be recognized) :⁠—
+   followed by white·space, or else the only thing on the line) :⁠—
+
+- If the paragraph is preformatted, it is an ordinary paragraph.
 
 - If the paragraph begins with `⁌`, it is a chapter heading
     (`<html:h1>`).
@@ -231,11 +238,13 @@ Once the tree is built as above, it is remediated into its final form
 - Successive list items of the same level and class are joined into
     a single list.
 
+- Linebreaks in preformatted paragraphs are replaced with `<html:br>`.
+
 Finally, any character can be escaped by instead providing its Unicode
-  codepoint in the form `<U+NNNN>`, where `NNNN` is one or more
+  codepoint in the form `{U+NNNN}`, where `NNNN` is one or more
   hexadecimal digits.
 Multiple codepoints may be provided separated by periods, as in
-  `<U+WWWW.ZZZZ>`
+  `{U+WWWW.ZZZZ}`
 
 ## Usage