It's not a big deal, but -
Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 (these will all appear on one line, even though I didn't write it that way).
If you want it to look right, you have to press 'enter' TWICE between lines, like this:
Line A
Line B
Line C
Why does this happen, and why doesn't anyone complain about it? It bugs the crap out of me.
Okay, rant over.
"I can't complain, but sometimes I still do."
Is there an easy way to paste in a block of text from elsewhere, and not have the formatting (i.e. the line-feeds) lost?
If you know of a site that that does it, let me know. EDIT: I think I might have found a trick. I'll give it a shot tomorrow.
But that is suboptimal. I'd love to see if someone is doing it right, and I'd try to do the same. I haven't really looked into it, but I will now. There may be a nice way to set up an equivalent to the two spaces which would require much less effort. He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled,
That lies unlifted now, come dew, come rust,
But still lies pointed as it ploughed the dust.
If we who sight along it round the world,
See nothing worthy to have been its mark,
It is because like men we look too near,
Forgetting that as fitted to the sphere,
Our missiles always make too short an arc.
They fall, they rip the grass, they intersect
The curve of earth, and striking, break their own;
They make us cringe for metal-point on stone.
But this we know, the obstacle that checked
And tripped the body, shot the spirit on
Further than target ever showed or shone.
-Robert Frost
Beneath Blessington's eyes
The reclaimed Paradise
Should be free as the former from evil;
But if the new Eve
For an Apple should grieve,
What mortal would not play the Devil. -Lord Byron Line breaks should be retained. Let me know if you find anything buggy with it. You can still do the alternate as well: Beneath Blessington's eyes
The reclaimed Paradise
Should be free as the former from evil;
But if the new Eve
For an Apple should grieve,
What mortal would not play the Devil.
-Lord Byron
"When you do want to insert a <br /> break tag using Markdown, you end a line with two or more spaces, then type return. Yes, this takes a tad more effort to create a <br />, but a simplistic “every line break is a <br />” rule wouldn’t work for Markdown. " What I don't get is why the simplistic rule "wouldn't work for Markdown". Why the hell not? Two points : 1) Why should I have to artifically add TWO spaces at the end of a line, to get the desired behaviour? I haven't seen a good reason yet. 2) Even if I did learn this new habit, THAT DOESN'T HELP, if what I'm doing is (for example) copying and pasting a poem, where the existing line breaks are important.
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it. I said, "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter - bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart."
