Directives are enclosed in brackets. Directives normally affect the text between the directive and a closing directive. A closing directive is normally the same as the opening directive but preceeded by a slash. I formats italic type. P designates the end of a paragraph.
HR places a line, or horizontal rule, across the page.
IMG points at a picture to be placed on the page. A creates a hypertext link to another page. The following example demonstrates these eight directives. This page shows the source, which is in a text file created with TeachText. If you click on the example source, you'll see a working example of the resulting page.