The blank line between the two actually – well, I suppose some clients might act differently than others, but certainly in the Web UI on lemmy and IIRC Reddit – produces a different effect, has a larger horizontal space, and is intended to be a paragraph break rather than just a line break.
foo
bar
(with two spaces trailing “foo”) Gives:
foo
bar
And
foo
bar
Gives:
foo
bar
It’s not normally a massive difference, but suppose you’re writing poetry, say, you’d probably rather have paragraph breaks between verses and line breaks after each line in a verse:
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
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In Markdown, you want to put two spaces at the end of a line if you don’t want it to be treated as a single rewrapped line.
So:
Gives
foo bar
And with two spaces after “foo”:
foo
bar
I generally use bulleted lists instead to make it clear that it’s a list.
Gives:
Oh, thanks for the info. I always add two lines when I want a line break, didn’t know you can add two spaces at the end!
The blank line between the two actually – well, I suppose some clients might act differently than others, but certainly in the Web UI on lemmy and IIRC Reddit – produces a different effect, has a larger horizontal space, and is intended to be a paragraph break rather than just a line break.
(with two spaces trailing “foo”) Gives:
foo
bar
And
Gives:
foo
bar
It’s not normally a massive difference, but suppose you’re writing poetry, say, you’d probably rather have paragraph breaks between verses and line breaks after each line in a verse:
I have been able to get two spaces to work on mobile.