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Better Line End Formatting

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Stephen

19 Aug, 2014 01:36 PM

Please recognize line endings better. See screenshot. Tired of having to always edit my lists.

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1. 1 Posted by Julien on 19 Aug, 2014 01:55 PM

   

   Hi Stephen,

   Lighthouse uses Markdown for text formatting. Lists are block elements and as such need to be separated by a new line. This means that you always need a new line before a list:

   This is a list
   
   * Item A
   * Item B
   * Item C
   

   Rather than:

   This is a list  
   * Item A
   * Item B
   * Item C
   

   which would indeed not be recognized as a list.

   If you're a bit tech savvy, you could look at this blog post which describes ways to have a great Markdown experience in the browser.

   Let me know if you have any question.

   Cheers!

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2. 2 Posted by Stephen on 19 Aug, 2014 02:46 PM

   

   I realize there are technical reasons for this. However it’s just one more thing for the user to remember and detracts from the simplicity message that Lighthouse markets.

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3. 3 Posted by Julien on 19 Aug, 2014 02:57 PM

   

   Hi Stephen,

   While it does require a bit of learning, the advantage of Markdown is that over the years it has really taken off as the the "lingua franca" or "default" text formatting syntax for most technical tools. So it is a familiar syntax that people usually feel at home with. It also has a great number of tools and libraries available, including great editors (LightPaper, Mou, Marked).

   That being said, non-technical people (and sometimes tech people too) are not always familiar with it, and I can understand the desire for something that "just works".

   So I do understand the frustration. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll change our syntax for the time being.

   Let me know if you have any question.

   Cheers.

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4. Julien closed this discussion on 26 Aug, 2014 03:17 PM.