Leading blank lines in codeblocks ignored?

[John Gruber]

A. Pagaltzis <pagaltzis at gmx.de> wrote on 1/1/07 at 2:08 PM:


> No, he said a *literal* non-breaking space. The `&nbsp;` entity,

> in case you didn’t know, is not special; like all entities, it

> merely stands for a character that also has a regular character

> code: 160 in the ISO-Latin-* encodings and in Unicode (U+00A0).


Right. On a Mac, type Option-Space to generate one.

-J.G.