Re: Line breaks (Was: Re: Unsupported extension in Commonmark_x resulting in alternative output)

[Thomas Byskov Dalgaard <tbdlist-AHfMSizzl90sTMJHDOTzqX9LOBIZ5rWg@public.gmane.org>]

Hi John!

Thanks so much for this!
Can you also look into enable the extension lists_without_preceding_blankline
since the same issue is present for this extension as for the escaped_hard_line_breaks.


Best regards Thomas 

> Den 23. jun. 2022 kl. 22.17 skrev John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>:
> 
> 
> I'll change the writer so it uses \ + newline for
> commonmark + commonmark variants.
> 
> Daniel Staal <DStaal-Jdbf3xiKgS8@public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
>> On 6/23/22 2:21 AM, John MacFarlane wrote:
>>> This is a bit tricky.  escaped_line_breaks isn't really an
>>> extension for commonmark, because it is part of the core spec.
>>> The writer uses two spaces instead; both are supported according
>>> to the spec, and the writer has to make a choice.
>> 
>> As an aside, that particular choice always is a bit touchy to me - while 
>> it *looks* nice, many text editors (including BBEdit, my preferred) will 
>> automatically strip whitespace at the end of a line.  Many users won't 
>> realize it's there in the first place after all, and extra whitespace 
>> can make handling text documents awkward using automated tools.  (And, 
>> in case it ever matters, it can bloat filesizes.)
>> 
>> So relying on whitespace at the end of a line for required behavior is 
>> uncertain at best, in my experience - and this is one thing where I 
>> often have to go back in and manually edit Markdown files after I've 
>> formatted them with Pandoc.
>> 
>> Daniel T. Staal
>> 
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