It's odd how neither this post, nor the spec, nor GitHub's "Mastering Markdown" help page[1], nor the more complete "Basic writing and formatting syntax" page[2], mentions the fact that GitHub treats every newline as a hard break.
CommonMark contains this little sentence to work around its specified behavior, which is left untouched in the GFM spec:
> A renderer may also provide an option to render soft line breaks as hard line breaks.
I'd say whether or not it does this is a rather important thing to mention. When I write Markdown documents for GitHub I have to change my editor settings, only because of this.
CommonMark contains this little sentence to work around its specified behavior, which is left untouched in the GFM spec:
> A renderer may also provide an option to render soft line breaks as hard line breaks.
I'd say whether or not it does this is a rather important thing to mention. When I write Markdown documents for GitHub I have to change my editor settings, only because of this.
[1]: https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/
[2]: https://help.github.com/articles/basic-writing-and-formattin...