Paragraphs and Line Breaks

[Angie Ahl]

Thanks Michael.

That's exactly the kind of list of examples I was trying to think of.

I'm trying to write a solutions that's all things to all people and 
have just decided to try Markdown instead of my home made cocktail of a 
markup I currently have. I've now got a mixture of the 2 and it's 
mostly working. But the email problem has got me before, but the adding 
2 spaces doesn't work for me either. I'm looking for a solution that 
doesn't make people need to modify existing text.

I'm not asking for anyone to do it for me and if I find one I will of 
course share it.

At the moment I'm thinking about seeing what the next character after 
the \n  is.

If it's capitalised or the start of a header etc it would indicate a 
proper break rather than a created one. Haven't finished thinking it 
through yet.

Angie


On 4 Jul 2005, at 19:38, Michel Fortin wrote:


> Le 4 juil. 2005, à 13:36, Angie Ahl a écrit :

>

>> Not really. I'm trying to work out why the double space is needed as 

>> the Markup code already treats 2 return as the end of a para so I 

>> can't see why the double space is required.

>

> This rule is needed when you want to make your text pretty. Let's say 

> you have a list, you can indent the content like this:

>

> 	1.  This is a small

> 	    paragraph with

> 	    three lines.

>

> 	    It also has a

> 	    second paragraph.

>

>     2.  Second item with

> 	    two lines.

>

> Ok, you usually write your lines longer than that, but the point is 

> that if you convert every line break by `<br />` like you suggest, you 

> can't align the lines yourself. You will have let your text editor 

> auto-wrapping method show you something like this:

>

> 	1.  This is a small

> 	paragraph with three

>     lines.

>

> 	    It also has a

> 	second paragraph.

>

>     2.  Second item with

> 	two lines.

>

> In the same way, blockquotes written that way:

>

> 	> This is a blockquote

> 	> that span on multiple

> 	> lines.

> 	>

> 	> It also have a second

> 	> paragraph.

>

> will need to be changed like this (displayed as if auto-wrap was 

> present):

>

> 	> This is a blockquote

> 	that span on multiple

> 	lines.

> 	>

> 	> It also have a second

> 	paragraph.

>

>

> I find this less readable. But if this is not inconvenient to you, 

> feel free to change your Markdown copy to accomodate your needs. It is 

> open-source for a reason.

>

>

> Michel Fortin

> michel.fortin at michelf.com

> http://www.michelf.com/

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