Am 15.08.2018 um 15:57 schrieb Allin
Cottrell:
On Wed, 15
Aug 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 15.08.2018 um 14:36 schrieb Allin
Cottrell:
I thought the idea of markdown was that you don't necessarily
have to transform it in order to be nicely human-readable?
That's the claim, but there's a problem with line lengths. A
single newline in markdown text translates to a "hard" HTML
linebreak, <br>.
So authors who want the body of a paragraph to reflow on demand do
not insert such breaks. So, in turn, we get super-long lines in
raw markdown.
Hm, not sure if that's correct. Looking at (the source version) of
the syntax description at
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.text suggests
that you can have (single) newlines in the source without getting
hard <br /> things. (Compare the html result
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.)
Instead the syntax intro there says: "When you do want to
insert a <br /> break tag using Markdown, you
end a line with two or more spaces, then type return. ... "a
simplistic
“every line break is a <br />” rule wouldn’t
work for Markdown"
cheers,
sven