Line breaks in a paragraph

[oskla129]

In-pragraph-line-breaks are often done using two space characters at the end of the line in Markdown.
The following line of code removes trailing whitespaces preventing the line break.

doorstop/doorstop/core/types.py

Line 305 in 03aa287

text_value = '\n'.join([s.rstrip() for s in text_value.split('\n')])

Is this a bug or by design?

[jacebrowning]

In-pragraph-line-breaks are often done using two space characters at the end of the line in Markdown.

Unless I'm misunderstanding, leading and trailing whitespace is ignored: https://spec.commonmark.org/0.30/#paragraphs

I think that line was added to replicate the way many editors are configured to remove trailing whitespace.

[oskla129]

It seems to ba called hard line breaks.
https://spec.commonmark.org/0.30/#hard-line-breaks

I can see that removing trailing whitespace make sense in a lot of places but for markdown it creates a problem.

[jacebrowning]

Thanks for pointing me to the right place in the spec! I guess we don't support that. Does using a backslash work?

[oskla129]

Backslash does not work when rendering to .html.
It seems to be because the python-markdown library does not support backslash.