Every other website that uses markdown rewraps the lines. For example, I have compared the output of rentry's Markdown engine to that a number of other Markdown implementations.
As you can see, 37 out of the 38 markdown implementations tested in that website put the entire paragraph into a p element, rather than adding br elements everywhere the user pressed enter in the source. It would make it easier for new users if you did that too.
Yeah rentry uses line breaks. It is rather popular behavior, just no the default one.
A lot of the markdown engines have some sort of extension or option for this: 123
I believe GitHub also uses nl2br but for comments only.
radude
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4 years ago
Every other website that uses markdown rewraps the lines. For example, I have compared the output of rentry's Markdown engine to that a number of other Markdown implementations.
As you can see, 37 out of the 38 markdown implementations tested in that website put the entire paragraph into a
pelement, rather than addingbrelements everywhere the user pressed enter in the source. It would make it easier for new users if you did that too.