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In the py project, it certainly was for differentiating a line of python from html.

x = 5
%p {x}

It also enabled inlined tags

%html %body %h1 Hello World

The three options in my mind worth considering are

Remove From First Element

Due to how plain text works right now, the line contained by the element needs no special notation, but multiline plain text requires a back slash, mostly to properly control whitespace. It is feasible to not require % except for inlining

html
  body
    div %h1 Hello World
    div a b c d
      \ e f g

I feel this is a bit hard to distinguish whats going on though. Which brings me to the other option

Swap control needs from elements to text

Essentially, remove the need for % and require something for all text. The example below uses \

html body
  div \ a b c d
    \ e f g h

Considering the use case of damsel (discussed below) this wouldn't be a bad option, but I do feel it might become more burdensome to seemingly arbitrarily insert a character to start text mid declaration versus the somewhat easy habit of starting a new line with %. A % also gives each element a distinct look, such %div #id .class

Finally, this brings me back to

Leave it alone

Something like damsel suits a particular need of development, and that need is not for large content writeups. It's ideal for stubbing out an interface that will have most of its content insert by variables, and heavily scripted by javascript, making it easy to reference the dom you've created. I already feel the syntax accomplishes that through my use of it on multiple projects. If the constraints I worked under at the time just happen to produce the best results I can come up with, then it may be best to simply leave it alone.

cd github.com/dskinner/damsel/
go install
main.go:7:2: import "dasa.cc/damsel/dmsl": cannot find package
main.go:8:2: import "dasa.cc/damsel/dmsl/parse": cannot find package

I had at one time written this, but it has since vanished.