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