Re: [EXTERNAL] Question about Codimd for w.g. minutes

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

On 2021-07-29, at 20:10, Kyle Rose <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Interesting. I think CodiMD is rendering incorrectly, because markdown intentionally ignores single newlines: if CodiMD wants a line break, it should insert *two* newlines (a paragraph break) or two spaces at the end of a line (line break) to get that effect. I would avoid the issue entirely by using bullets to delineate elements.

That is a well-known problem with markdown:
Implementations differ in how “hard” newlines are.
(There is also a difference on where a bullet is recognized after a paragraph.)

CodiMD’s markdown is very friendly to the online notes crowd.
Github flavored markdown (GFM) was until they reverted to Gruber’s definition of what a newline means.
Most other markdown implementations have the Gruber-like soft newlines and “lazy” syntax that gives even less notice to newlines.

That’s a bummer, indeed.
I’m not aware of a tool that converts hard-newline markdown like CodiMD’s to soft-newline ones (well, maybe kramdown can do that in its GFM mode; need to check).

Grüße, Carsten