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Parameters vs data items: comments do not complete blocks, so the comment character # is an exception to the "non-space" rule
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'''Data blocks:''' some commands, like [[#BarData|BarData]], [[#PlotData|PlotData]], [[#TextData|TextData]], [[#Colors|Colors]] expect a ''data block'' consisting of one or more ''data lines''. Data lines should start with one or more spaces. A data block is considered complete when a line
starting with a non-space is encountered, unless that non-space is the comment character #.
Thus, sinceSince empty lines are ignored, they may be used to group related data lines within a block.
 
Attributes in a data block can conceptually be divided into ''parameters'' and ''data items''. Data blocks can contain parameters and data items intermingled.