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In markdown, you need to precede the <enter> with two spaces to get a <br>. As I understand it, Markdown syntax was inspired by email syntax, so we have > for
by RyanMcGreal 15y ago
In markdown, you need to precede the <enter> with two spaces to get a <br>.
As I understand it, Markdown syntax was inspired by email syntax, so we have > for block quotations, * for unordered list items, etc. By this reasoning, a single newline may just be the email client wrapping the text, whereas a double newline means the writer is starting a new paragraph.
- gordonguthrie 15y agoMarkdown is pretty gnarly as a language. I wrote a markdown interpreter for Erlang https://github.com/hypernumbers/erlmarkdown https://github.com/hypernumbers/erlmarkdown Initially I wrote it against the Daring Fireball spec but switched it over to track the output of the showdown javascript library. Markdown is not a great language to implement. I wrote a hand parser because there are loads of places where you have to look ahead more than one token (not that I am a great lexer/parser expert).