[jmmv]

I didn’t finish reading the article yet, but a couple of things so far:

* Opening the article with the problem of the line break being a trailing white space is… odd. I have written tons of Markdown and I can count in one hand the number of times I’ve had to do this. Most prose doesn’t have hard line breaks: it has paragraphs, which are easy to represent.

* As for list formatting, see this https://jmmv.dev/2022/07/markdown-lists.html , which fixes the problem for Markdown. It may not look pretty, but it works consistently AFAICT.

In any case, yes, the warts that Markdown has are annoying.

[fluidcruft]

I only ever learned that trailing space thing when I stumbled into the ocpoetry subreddit and started participating. Eventually I started using them elsewhere for stylistic effect in comments. But I can't really see using them much in long form prose.