Paragraphs and Line Breaks

[Lou Quillio]

A. Pagaltzis wrote:

> What annoys me is that Markdown only discards one of those two

> spaces, so `  \n` actually translates to ` <br />\n` instead of

> just `<br />\n`.


I suppose that's for the benefit of folks who'll be copy-pasting the 
output to another form that doesn't preserve the linefeed.  Without 
preserving a space, the last word of one line and first of the next 
would run together on re-wrap.

That would create more problems for more people than the alternative 
of stripping both spaces.  In _most_ cases, the preserved space is 
real and needed as a word delimiter.

LQ