Spacing issues?

[mtango99]

Hey all,

Anyone having spacing issues when publishing from your text editor (I'm using Notepad++) to the GitHub website?

Example 1:

Open Source GIS
2/28/21

becomes "Open Source GIS 2/28/21"

Example 2:

A

B

becomes

A

B

(or maybe that space is just a "space after paragraph" sort of thing?)

Also... if anyone has any better ways to indent than "      " (...and as I'm typing here there are two lines between "thing?)" and "Also"-- but when I publish there's only one line space.

[josephholler]

You've correctly noticed that by default, Markdown is trying to be simple. It's left-justified and doesn't have special paragraph formatting options. If there is a blank line in between text, it assumes that it is a new paragraph. If not, it assumes the text just keeps going in the same paragraph.

> here's a quote, which might satisfy your indentation question. Start the line with a greater-than symbol.

here's a quote, which might satisfy your indentation question. Start the line with a greater-than symbol.

Otherwise, you can insert HTML tags as much as you like in your Markdown documents. Jeckyll will use the HTML tags just as they are. Here's a good guide to html. A handy tag for your situation is <br> to end one line without creating a new paragraph.
I just used one here!
and here.

[mtango99]

Thanks, Joe-- that helps!  
 
Also for anyone with the same question, just found more info here:

"To add a single extra line after a paragraph, add two extra spaces at the end of the text. To add an extra line of space between paragraphs, add the HTML   code, followed by two extra spaces (e.g. &nbsp.. , replacing the periods with spaces)."

    Like that^ -- creates blank lines like above. (the two spaces don't seem to do anything for me though)

[josephholler]

to follow up,   is HTML code for a single space. So those instructions are essentially adding paragraphs that consist of a single blank space, so that you don't see anything except blank lines.

 This is indented with just one symbol, the em space   A good reference for HTML symbols is here

Be aware when searching for Markdown tips that there are several different dialects or "flavors" of markdown. GitHub may not always support everything from other dialects.

[mtango99]

Thank you!!