Ask Lemmy

In Markdown, if you want a paragraph break, then whack Enter twice. That is, this:

foo

bar

Gives this:

foo

bar

If you want a line break, then add a backslash or two spaces at the end of the line, and then hit Enter. That is, this (you can't see it, but two spaces after "foo"):

foo  
bar\
baz

Gives this:

foo
bar
baz

When I'm doing an actual list, I generally prefer to do either an unnumbered or numbered list, though.

* foo
* bar

Gives this:

• foo
• bar

And for numbered lists:

1. foo
2. bar

Gives this:

1. foo
2. bar

It doesn't look from that like Markdown is buying you much with the numbered lists (traditionally in Markdown, numbered lists were auto-renumbered, which is IMHO a bad idea and is one feature of Markdown that is not implemented here), but this gets useful if you want to do lists with multiple lines, which is done with a four-space prefix on successive lines:

1. foo\
    My dog adores foo.
2. bar\
    Some cats fancy bar.

Gives this:

1. foo
   My dog adores foo.
2. bar
   Some cats fancy bar.

I just press enter

Leave a space in the blank line here then press enter

There you go, break in the paragraph.

It's after 3 AM and I need to shut down, but for a second there I thought you were talking about "Faraway, So Close", which is the sequel to "Wings of Desire", one of my favorite films ever.

54% on the tomatometer, could stand to go lower. :(