Every setup or lesson must a contain a command file. The command file is the script to be executed.

It should be named commands.txt and located in the setup / lesson directory.

The command file should be saved as UTF-8 if it contains non Latin characters. (Anki Script will try to load it as UTF-8, and if that fails will attempt to load it using the default file encoding for the user's system.)

When running a command file:

• any white space at the start of a line is ignored, allowing for spaces to be used at the start of lines to make scripts more readable.
• commands may be split across multiple lines by ending a line with ':', ';' or ','

(Note that any ':' at the end of a line is removed before processing the command ';' and ',' are left)

As an example to illustrate these rules the following two commands are equivalent:

create verb note type and:
    add fields Russian, Audio, English;
    add card types e>r, r>e, setting default deck to verbs

and

create verb note type and add fields Russian, Audio, English; add card types e>r, r>e, setting default deck to verbs