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Why do two lines of text ignore spacing unless more than one line is between them and how to not make it happen? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by Mandyv2@lemmy.world to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I apologize if this is not right to post here but im not sure where to go with this one as i havent really found an answer myself.

See, heres the thing, as yall surely know when i hit enter on a line once it will not work, it has to be two.

Is that intentional, if so why?

how does one disable that?

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[–] emptyother@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It isnt just how Markdown works either, its how HTML works too: Text is grouped in paragraphs there too, not in lines or statements. Of course there is options to force a line break for when its necessary. But most text reads better as paragraphs. And most people overuse manual line breaks.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah.

I really don't want to see text like this.

It would make things a lot more annoying to read.

I much prefer combining sentences by default. It's natural to put a blank line between paragraphs, and Markdown was designed to make the natural thing render decently. You can put things on separate lines if you want, and it'll always read nicely.

But definitely break things up into paragraphs if it makes sense.