Re: para definition, syntax and semantic. Summary

I suspect we would have to support the current two trailing space behavior,
but we COULD introduce something in a later spec that was more declarative
/ specific.  The problem with doing so is that it would likely break some
document out there somewhere.  E.g., a -- at the end of a line could mean
"insert an explicit line break", but there are probably some MD sources out
there somewhere that have these already.


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26 November 2012 13:53, Joshua Kalis <kalisjoshua@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > However, semantically speaking, breaking paragraphs with <br /> should
> not
> > be commonplace anyway. Poems are the best example I can think of where
> this
> > actually fits. That being said I don't think that it should be
> encouraged to
> > use the soft break syntax since it is improper and less readable in the
> MD
> > document. When the paragraph above ends at the line-length of all the
> lines
> > above and below then in the MD document the paragraphs are difficult to
> > distinguish.
>
> A poem is a good use case.
> Current practice makes it hard to avoid the line break / soft break without
> really messing up current documents and annoying users.
>
> Multiple para's would look odd.
> The classic layout would have less than para level line spacing.
>
> Any suggestions for a future syntax? I can't see how we can deviate
> from this and retain any support from users/implementers.
>
> regards
>
>
>
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