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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
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 # 💄📝 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>`).
@@ -159,6 +166,10 @@ After this classification, each quoted or unquoted paragraph is further
 - If the paragraph begins with `⚠︎`, it is a warning note
     (`<html:div role="note" class="warn">`).
 
+- If the paragraph begins with `#`, it is a comment.
+  Comments produce X·M·L comment nodes and can be used to break up list
+    items into separate lists.
+
 - If the paragraph begins with `⋯`, it is a continuation paragraph
     (`<html:div class="continuation">`).
   Continuation paragraphs may be used to continue a preceding list item
@@ -168,15 +179,32 @@ After this classification, each quoted or unquoted paragraph is further
 
 - Otherwise, it is an ordinary paragraph.
 
-Following this sigil (if any, including trailing white·space) there may
-  be a `¶` followed by zero or more non·white·space characters.
+Following this sigil (if any) there may be a `¶` followed by zero or
+  more non·white·space characters.
 The characters following the `¶` give the identifier for the paragraph,
   which is expected to be unique within a document.
+This may be suffixed with a language tag beginning with `@` and
+  terminated with `$`.
 
 The remaining characters in a paragraph form its contents.
 Markup within paragraphs is delimited with·out exception by pairs of
   characters, with the following precedence :⁠—
 
+- The characters `⌦` and `⌫` indicate inline comments.
+  A single character `⌧` may be used to indicate an “empty” comment
+    (consisting of `U+034F COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER` for X·M·L
+    compatibility).
+
+- The characters `{@` and `"}` indicate attribute specifications.
+  The attribute specification must contain at least one `="` which
+    separates the key of the attribute from the value.
+  Attributes attach to the previous element or text node, with
+    white·space‐only text nodes after elements ignored; if there is no
+    such previous element or text node, an empty text node is used
+    instead.
+  Multiple attributes can be given in sequence.
+  Text nodes with attributes are wrapped in `<html:span>`.
+
 - The characters `{🔗` and `>}` indicate a hyperlink to a U·R·L
     (`<html:a>`).
   The hyperlink must contain at least one `<`; the content before the
@@ -194,21 +222,21 @@ Markup within paragraphs is delimited with·out exception by pairs of
 - The characters `⸨` and `⸩` indicate parenthetical content
     (`<html:small>`).
 
-- The characters `☞︎` and `☜︎` indicate strong importance
-    (`<html:strong>`).
-
-- The characters `⹐` and `⹑` indicate emphasis (`<html:em>`).
+- The characters `` ` `` and `´` indicate code (`<html:code>`).
 
 - The characters `⟪` and `⟫` indicate titles (`<html:cite>`).
 
+- The characters `⸶` and `⸷` indicate names (`<html:u class="name">`).
+
 - The characters `⟨` and `⟩` indicate offset text (`<html:i>`).
-  This may be followed by a `@`, a language tag, and a `$` to provide
-    the language of the text.
 
 - The characters `⦃` and `⦄` indicate keyword highlighting
     (`<html:b>`).
 
-- The characters `` ` `` and `´` indicate code (`<html:code>`).
+- The characters `☞︎` and `☜︎` indicate strong importance
+    (`<html:strong>`).
+
+- The characters `⹐` and `⹑` indicate emphasis (`<html:em>`).
 
 Once the tree is built as above, it is remediated into its final form
   by the following steps :⁠—
@@ -227,11 +255,15 @@ 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}`.
+Due to limitations in X·S·L·T, characters cannot be escaped in
+  attributes (including link targets).
 
 ## Usage