{VBox
    background="silver",
    color="green",
    {text The default color in this VBox is {bold green}.},
    {Rule height=1pt},
    {text The thick Rule below is {bold yellow}.},
    {Rule color="yellow", height=3pt},
    {text color = "blue", Next are two ellipse's, with and 
        without a color setting
    },
    {HBox spacing=6pt,
        {EllipticalArcGraphic
            width=1in, height=0.5in,
            color = "aqua"
        },
        {EllipticalArcGraphic
            width=1in, height=0.5in
        }
    }
}

{text font-size=12pt,
    {text font-size=8pt, Little}
    {text font-size=1cm, Pretty big}
    {text Medium}
    {text font-size=1in, Huge!}
}
{text And this is the default}

{paragraph font-style="italic", Everything in this paragraph
    should be in an italic font,
    {text font-style="normal", except for this text fragment.}
}

{paragraph Everything in this paragraph
    should be normally weighted,
    {text font-weight="bold", except for this text fragment.}
}

{paragraph
    Modified Shopping List: onions, carrots, french bread,
    {text text-line-through?=true, pot roast},
    London Broil, Camembert, eggs, {text
    text-line-through?=true, orange juice}, butter, jam.}

{paragraph
    This is the result of
    {text text-underline?=true, setting text-underline? to true}
    for a text fragment.
}
{paragraph
    {underline But notice what I am doing here{em-dash}I
    am using the underline character format and
    {text text-underline?=false, setting text-underline? to false.}}
}