Summary of YAM syntax.

Title	First paragraph of the file.
Headings	%1,%2,etc.; %1* is unnumbered; follow with blank line
Bold, italic, teletype, underlined	..., _..._, ^...^, __...__
Contents	%contents
Horizontal lines	-—
Tables	%[ \| row 1/column 1 \| r1/c2 \| -— \| r2/c1 \| r2/c2 \| %]
Block quotation	%"...%"
Line break	%br
Verbatim	%<...%>
Code	%code(lang=Java)< ... %> provides syntax highlighting for Java, XML, etc.
Lists	- item 1 - item 2 # numbered item 1 (for nesting use indentation)
Footnote	%footnote(...)
Escaping	\
Links	http://thing.com/ or %(http://thing.com/) or %(http://thing.com/, link text)¹
Anchors	%#name (then link to it with "%(#name)")
Images	%image(file) or %image(file, alt tag, width, height, position, border) (second and subsequent arguments are optional)
Citations	%cite(citekey,citekey,...)
Inclusion	%include(file.yam) %include(level, useTitle, file.yam)
Non-breaking space	%\ followed by space
Single-line comment / notes	%% ...
Multi-line comment / notes	%/* ... %*/
Special characters	(e.g. < or & in HTML) are translated correctly in the output.
Twitter	%twitter(title=GATE News, account=GateAcUk, name=GATE, count=10)
Google	%google(siteip=gate.ac.uk)
Metadata	%meta(author=My Name) become <meta> tags in the HTML

Footnotes

The link text can contain "inline" markup such as %image, %cite or *bold*/_italic_, but not block markup such as tables