# About REML

REML is a little markup language that can be used to style text. It is a SGML language similar to HTML, albeit much smaller. A small number of tags and character entities are supported.

See the REML v6 language definition for full details.

# REML in CodeSnip

Code snippets include REML to format snippets' description and extra fields. CodeSnip interprets and renders the REML when displaying snippets in its UI and when printing them.

CodeSnip currently supports REML v6. Earlier versions of CodeSnip supported different versions of REML:

- REML v1 was first supported by CodeSnip v2.2.5
- REML v2 was first supported by CodeSnip v3.0
- REML v3 was first supported by CodeSnip v3.0.1
- REML v4 was first supported by CodeSnip v4.0 alpha 1 (preview)
- REML v5 was first supported by CodeSnip v4.21.0
- REML v6 was first supported by CodeSnip v4.23.0

All CodeSnip versions are backward compatible with earlier versions of REML.