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I assume Reddit-style

code blocking with

four spaces

engages the monospaced font,

1234567 123 1234567890 1234,

and I assume

putting two spaces

after a line doesn’t join them

the same way putting two lines

together without two spaces still joins them

into a single paragraph?

(All of my little experiments work in the wysiwyg preview, but when saved & posted, code blocks have monstrous whitespace between contiguous lines, as do bulleted lists, and numbered lists grotesquely use the numbers themselves as whitespace. Also, contiguous normal lines without end doublespaces are joined like on Reddit in the preview but unjoined when saved and posted. If a codeblock with four leading spaces is the first line, those spaces are ignored and the first line is ruined in the display.)

  1. This is rather disconcerting.

  2. Bilbo Baggins, The Fellowship of the Ring — 'I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.'

  3. Space Shuttle ants, The Simpsons — “Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!“

Bulleted list:

  • .45 ACP

  • .380 ACP

  • .6.5mm Creedmoor

  • .308 Winchester

Yeah, the bulleted lists are too spread out. Looks like monospace is also.

We've got a pending half-finished fix for the ordered list spacing; I've added a bug for the monospaced issue.

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