Markdown Line Break: The Two-Space Trap
Two trailing spaces make a Markdown line break — until your editor strips them. What actually works in READMEs, tables and GitHub comments, and why.
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Two trailing spaces make a Markdown line break — until your editor strips them. What actually works in READMEs, tables and GitHub comments, and why.
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Markdown underline has no syntax. We ran u, ins and span through GitHub's allowlist and 4 renderers: only ins survives a README. Copy-paste fixes inside.
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