Spaces following quotes disappear

Joel Sanda joelsanda at dwimordene.net
Sat Mar 19 19:09:44 EDT 2011


On 3/19/2011 4:41 PM, Rick Charon wrote:

> I have a line that includes a double quotation mark followed by 5

> spaces, and then some text, like so:

> " global"

> when it is converted with markdown, the spaces disappear, so it results in

> "global"

> Is there a way to keep these spaces in there?

> Thanks for any help.

> Rick

>


Have you tried "     global"?

Using WriteMonkey's export to web browser the source from Firefox was this:

<p>"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;global"</p>

- joel


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