(2025-01-13) Semantic Line Breaks Are A Feature Of Markdown Not A Bug

WritingSlowly: Semantic line breaks are a feature of Markdown, not a bug. My writing process often begins with Markdown, a simple syntax for publication on the web

I love Markdown, but one thing has always bugged me. It’s a quirk of Markdown that simple line breaks are ignored

I’ve previously found this behaviour a bit annoying, but today I learned about semantic line breaks via https://sembr.org and it has completely changed the way I see line breaks working.

From now on I’ll just write every sentence on its own line, and then choose where I want the paragraphs to break, simply by ending the line with two spaces. (I would do double-breaks.)

This way I get to clarify my thoughts by limiting each sentence or clause to a single vertical line, while Markdown makes the paragraph formatting prettier for my readers.