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Ohhhh this is what you meant by the paragraph spacing. forwardslash this is for you! There are two separate issues (correct me if I am wrong, flag) - one is that the paragraphs go away when you edit a post. And two: a single line space doesn't register as a new paragraph (I think there is a reason for this one though...)
Please please please just make what we type in the little box be exactly what shows up on the screen after submission if at all possible. WHY doesn't hitting enter make a new line? EDIT: Surely I am not the only one who thinks about this way too much,
Lol. Okay - I looked it up. It's a thing with Markdown (which is not something we created, just hacked to use in Arc) http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26011/should-the-markdown-renderer-treat-a-single-line-break-as-br You indeed are not the only one: A markup should not break elementary common sense rules in order to provide other elevated functionality. The fact users use two carriage returns to create paragraphs [...] is irrelevant. The markup internal rules stipulate that [...] text formatting can break break because the lack of two carriage returns. That's fair enough. But text doesn't lose readability if instead of a new paragraph, every carriage return introduces a line break on the resulting text. Take a look at the user edit box here: [image that is now gone so use flag's image above] Is there anything in there that is not clear in terms of formatting? He doesn't use carriage returns and yet his line-break formatting style makes that particular text easy to read and appealing to the eye. The markup however made a mess of it. So, the markup actively ruined the user text. This cannot be. For the sake of some special formatting elements, like list detection the markup aggressively demands two carriage returns to break a line and doesn't accept the idea of a new-line break, unless the user explicitly forces it with the BR tag. The line that divides easy-of-use and formatting tyranny can be very thin. On this case it was crossed over. The text the user writes on his text box should have been formatted with single line-breaks. The end result would have been readable text, just like the user intended.Hitting the carriage return key on a keyboard should give the user a new line in the output. This is simply typographical common sense.
I think we need to just see if there is a way to read a single line break from what is delivered when you press "submit" and turn it into a <br /> (or a <p></p>). We actually don't use <br /> tags for line breaks. cc: forwardslash