A block of text of any length and in any location, treated as an opaque comment – that is, ignored in the final output and used solely to leave information for other project contributors.
Any number of Unicode enclosed between /*…*/, optionally preceded by a valid comment tag.
Notation Conceptual AST Paper Output
/*Tᶜᵟ 𝑆×𝑁*/Comment(𝑆×𝑁, Tᵥᵟ, Block)—
𝑆 = any sign (Unicode character) ∉ STOP_SET (cf. Technical Catalogue of Symbols ) otherwise preceded by the escape character \.𝑁 = number of characters (represented by char or digits).Tᶜᵟ = optional comment tag.Tᵥᵟ = validated optional comment tag.
Notation Paper Output
/*abc*/
EpiDoc Outputs
Notation EpiDoc (XML)
/*abc*/
<ab>
</ab>
Structural Analysis (Conceptual AST)
Notation AST
/*abc*/
Comment(Block, None, "abc")