How do I do line breaks for lists like that? If I do two hits of Enter, it acts like a new paragraph in total. But I can’t get it to just jump down to the next line, it just follows after the one above it as if it were continuing a sentence. Bwah!
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:
foo
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.
Okay. Unrelated and it’s driving me insane.
How do I do line breaks for lists like that? If I do two hits of Enter, it acts like a new paragraph in total. But I can’t get it to just jump down to the next line, it just follows after the one above it as if it were continuing a sentence. Bwah!
I just press enter
Leave a space in the blank line here then press enter
There you go, break in the paragraph.
In Markdown, if you want a paragraph break, then whack Enter twice. That is, this:
Gives this:
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”):
Gives this:
When I’m doing an actual list, I generally prefer to do either an unnumbered or numbered list, though.
Gives this:
And for numbered lists:
Gives this:
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:
Gives this: