- normal scalar, but over several lines - | literal scalar - so we can draw ASCII: - - | - | ------ - > and a folded scalar... so we can just keep writing various things. And if we want to keep indentation: we just indent a little see, this stays indented - >- Here's a folded scalar that gets chomped. - |- And here's a literal scalar that gets chomped. - >2 Here's a folded scalar that starts with some indentation.