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I don't use Word. I use normal text editors and plain text emails. So when I write text I often break it up into smaller parts. I write things like: >argumenta

by iopq 11y ago

I don't use Word. I use normal text editors and plain text emails. So when I write text I often break it up into smaller parts. I write things like: >argumentative essays >off the cuff pick one if the quote is on the same line (like it is in Markdown formatting) the effect of a "choice" is lost, which is why I have to put two line breaks after it

e12e 11y ago
Markdown isn't plain text, however - while annoying, you could achieve the desired formatting with markdown both in plain "unrendered" mode, and in eg: html, by appending "<space><space><enter>" for forced linebreaks. There's no equivalent AFAIK for hn markup, you'd have to use a pre-block: - pest - cholera pick one. I believe the choice to translate single-enter to a space that can be reflowed is actually based on among other things email-formatting: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2646#section-4 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2646#section-4 I suppose the reasoning for not sticking with "<space><cr><lf>" for soft breaks, and "<cr><lf>" for hard breaks is that plain text on *nix uses just <lf>. So either most people would get ugly <cr>-marks and/or inconsistent <cr><lf>s in their README.md-files, or something other than rfc2646 was needed.