small bug with line breaks

Jingerbeardman·10/19/2013, 12:58:23 AM·2 votes·339 views

right now line breaks are not working correctly. This sentence is on the next line while I am typing this post but is showing up next to the end of the first line.

It takes 2 line breaks for this not to happen and makes lists very problematic as it spaces things out an incredible amount.

It also ignores any further line breaks after the first empty line as this line is 3 below the previous while typing.

I dont know if it is supposed to work this way but felt you needed to know

1 Comments

ploki12210/19/2013, 1:56:47 AM1 votes

Well, this all follows Daring Fireball's Markdown's specifications.

To get a line break, you need to end your previous line with 2 spaces.
To get a paragraph break, you need to skip 1 line.
And you cannot have 2 consecutive empty lines.

The first 2 points are for convention sakes (I'm pretty sure DF had a reason to instate it that way). The latter is for pretty obvious reasons, imo (basically it doesn't really remove anything from normal users, and it prevents a lot of troling).

Otherwise, right now it is possible to add non-breaking spaces ( &nbsp*;* ) to get around that restriction since they aren't considered "Whitespaces" (And if they fix that ,we ca nstill use a variety of other invisible sybols like soft-hypens).

To split sections, you can also use --- to create an horizontal line.

Most of what was there (except for *&*nbsp; trick, is in the formatting guide, between your post and the preview.