From cf53a18bc1cc1017fef5525d8c96acc12bda6ce0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: fiddlosopher Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:19:14 +0000 Subject: Documented the "blank line before header and block quote" discrepancy between standard markdown and pandoc. git-svn-id: https://pandoc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@350 788f1e2b-df1e-0410-8736-df70ead52e1b --- README | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index d7e696bd6..af06a7e86 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -484,6 +484,19 @@ standard markdown (email-style) boxquotes: | They look like this. `---- +Blank lines before headers and blockquotes +------------------------------------------ + +Standard markdown syntax does not require a blank line before a header +or blockquote. Pandoc does require this (except, of course, at the +beginning of the document). The reason for the requirement is that +it is all too easy for a `>` or `#` to end up at the beginning of a +line by accident (perhaps through line wrapping). Consider, for +example: + + I like several of their flavors of ice cream: #22, for example, and + #5. + Inline LaTeX ------------ -- cgit v1.2.3