• 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@sopuli.xyz
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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.

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        4 days ago

        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