Comments

Well, we are almost done with the basics. The final paragraph type in this collection is a comment. Comments are annotations made to your source, they will not show up in the target format.

The special prefix of comment paragraphs is a double slash.

   // this is a comment

Although comments are paragraphs, they are treated a little bit different, just for reasons of convenience. As they should be placed near to what they remark, the usual whitespace line behind would be contra productive. So, each comment line is a paragraph by itself. Which in turn means that subsequent comment lines need their double slash prefix each.

   // this is
   // a comment
   Here we go with the next text paragraph.