Re:Giving you more characters
by baby on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @06:53PM
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I see this more and more. Why is there a recent trend to use codeblocks instead of > ? Is there a popular platform where codeblocks are quotes?
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Re:Giving you more characters
by always_good on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @06:56PM
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Because HN doesn't preserve line-breaks and `>` doesn't do anything. You'd have to double-space the entire poem which is just silly.
HN should just preserve all line-breaks so we don't have to hack around it.
HN preserves linebreaks. It's the paragraph formatting that gets in the way of poetry like the above.
Re:Giving you more characters
by always_good on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:54PM
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No
it
doesn't
(The above was written "No\nit\ndoesn't")
You may be referring to some sort of distinction here, but I'm just talking about newlines.
No, just a brainfart. I was thinking of something else. Sorry.
Or it could do what Markdown does and preserve line-breaks that end in double spaces.
Invisible markup doesn't look like a good idea.