• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      IDK what platform you are using, but the 2 spaces at the end of a line, are to make new line work in standard Internet browsers.

      • egrets@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        Nothing to do with the browser, FYI, just the markdown interpreter - regardless of whether your client is a web app or otherwise.

        As you say, two spaces before a carriage return indicates a line break in most flavors of markdown. Two carriage returns indicates a paragraph break.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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        5 days ago

        I see two spaces rendered on Jerboa, but only one space rendered on the Lemmy web app. I mean specifically after “wrong.”

        Weird.

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
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      I use two spaces because I’ve been typing for a long time, lol

      Good eye! I still do it because, to my eyes, it makes it easier to indicate sentence boundaries while skimming the text.

      Some people say this is “wrong”, and I won’t enforce it on anyone, but I do it when I’m writing my own text. Not only do I like how it looks, but it’s a habit I’ve had for close to 30 years. It’s not worth fighting that level of muscle memory, especially when we have Find/Replace All! Haha