How to create a linebreak like HTML <br>

[luneutic]

I want to create a passage like this:

My Name
Street. 42
12345 Somecity

In Markdown I would just write <br> after each line. But how to do this with quarkdown?

[iamgio]

@luneutic in standard Markdown, a weak line break like <br> is achieved by appending two or more spaces at the end of the line, followed by a line break. Quarkdown follows the Markdown specification.

Edit (v1.8.0): the .br function can also be used as an unambiguous line break method.

[luneutic]

Would it be possible to extend standard markdown with something like a .linebreak function to allow for whitespace trimming of the whole file?

[iamgio]

@luneutic could you give an example? I'm not sure I understand your idea.

[iamgio]

I think I got it. Yes, I can add it.

[luneutic]

Just to make sure an example:

Standard markdown (take the dots as whitespace):

my text..
after linebreak

However there is some controversy over this and a few drawbacks (https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#line-break-best-practices):

• hard to see
• easy to mistype
• conflicts with linters and many editors

Common recommendation in markdown is to use <br>
But as this creates problems for quarkdown, I would love to have

my text .linebreak
on next line

render like

my text
on next line

[iamgio]

As a side note, Quarkdown does support HTML, but enforces calling the .html function. Here is how it works and the motivations behind this choice.

[iamgio]

@luneutic #172 added the .br function which works like you suggested. v1.8.0 will be rolling out in these days :)

[luneutic]

Awesome, thanks! I cannot wait to try it out

[iamgio]

@luneutic v1.8.0 is out now!