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Your friendly gay formatting fairy here: remove newlines between list items to avoid newlines after the numbers. Yes, it makes no sense. No, it's not my fault, in fact it's yours lol.
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7 legs of love yall1024 2yr ago#1208421
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HTML. IIRC the standard mandates coalescing all whitespace (except maybe nbsp etc) into a single whitespace and that single newlines are considered whitespace.
That in turn probably historically originates from pre-WWW times and people writing emails using text editors that inserted line-wrapping newlines and then other people wanting to read such emails using different line wrapping length settings.
Though I want to point out that this is a tangent, the above quirk of rdrama markdown parser (not present in reddit's) is weird af precisely because it reverses this rule.
edit: I checked and this is half wrong, HTML mandates collapsing all newlines and using <br/> or <p> for maintaining paragraph separation. So yeah, @Q is right in that markdown is at least the closest source of that convention. Idk if I can re-ping @yall1024 like this lol.
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Your friendly gay formatting fairy here: remove newlines between list items to avoid newlines after the numbers. Yes, it makes no sense. No, it's not my fault, in fact it's yours lol.
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Where did the formatting that requires 2 newlines for it actually show up come from? I don't remember ever having to do it in old forums.
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markdown, i believe
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HTML. IIRC the standard mandates coalescing all whitespace (except maybe nbsp etc) into a single whitespace and that single newlines are considered whitespace.
That in turn probably historically originates from pre-WWW times and people writing emails using text editors that inserted line-wrapping newlines and then other people wanting to read such emails using different line wrapping length settings.
Though I want to point out that this is a tangent, the above quirk of rdrama markdown parser (not present in reddit's) is weird af precisely because it reverses this rule.
edit: I checked and this is half wrong, HTML mandates collapsing all newlines and using
@Q is right in that markdown is at least the closest source of that convention. Idk if I can re-ping 
@yall1024 like this lol.
<br/>or<p>for maintaining paragraph separation. So yeah,Jump in the discussion.
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