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adam

26 Sep, 2013 01:46 PM

How can I insert a blank line after a heading? Just a carriage return doesn't seem to show a blank line in the preview window.

Thanks

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Fletcher on 26 Sep, 2013 05:56 PM

   

   My recommendations for understanding the MultiMarkdown syntax include:

   1. First, learn the fundamentals of the Markdown syntax at John Gruber's site (<http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics>). Markdown is the core, MultiMarkdown simply adds additional features "on top."

   2. The MultiMarkdown "cheat sheet" summarizes many of the features (<https://rawgithub.com/fletcher/human-markdown-reference/master/index.html>).

   3. Then, you can look at the MultiMarkdown User's Guide (<http://fletcher.github.io/peg-multimarkdown/>) to learn additional information about the extra features that are provided by MultiMarkdown.

   4. The MultiMarkdown sample documents demonstrate many of the features of Markdown/MultiMarkdown (<https://github.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown-Gallery>) for those who learn best from examples.

   As you learn the fundamentals of Markdown, you'll see that there's not really such a thing as a blank line, which is really an empty paragraph, because it doesn't make sense to have an empty paragraph. If you're trying to adjust spacing, then you should use CSS. If you want to "fake" a blank line, I suppose you could insert raw HTML (e.g. "<br/>") to adjust as you like.

   Hope that helps,

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2. Fletcher closed this discussion on 26 Sep, 2013 05:56 PM.

3. adam re-opened this discussion on 26 Sep, 2013 07:30 PM

4. 2 Posted by adam on 26 Sep, 2013 07:30 PM

   

   That makes sense. I was thinking about it the wrong way. :(

   Thanks for the links. I also noticed there doesn't seem to be a way to
   underline text. Am I missing something?

   Thanks

   Adam

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5. Support Staff 3 Posted by Fletcher on 27 Sep, 2013 07:24 PM

   

   Is there a way to underline text?

   NO.

   and YES.

   No is the philosophical answer --- from one perspective there's no such thing as underlining. Underlining is used to represent italics on machines that couldn't italicize text (e.g. typewriters). So, it's really the same thing as italics.

   That said, MultiMarkdown supports CriticMarkup. Depending on your CSS, CriticMarkup insertions are displayed with underlines as <ins>. So that would look like underlined text. But it has a different semantic meaning, and you have to be careful.

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