Submitted 11 months ago by otter@lemmy.ca to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
I’ve noticed this on a lot of places that use Markdown. The bullet points have more space above than they do below.
This makes it confusing visually because it looks like the text is associated with the item below, even though logically it should be related to the item above.
You can see this happening on my lemmy post here, but it also happens in other markdown based things: lemmy.ca/post/11285664
As a quick example, see here:
i think if you put less whitespace in between it will format a bit better?
Oh huh
Is there any way to keep some spacing?
Like this
- A - sub 1 - sub 2 - B
Same thing happens if I have sentences with bullet points:
Here is some information
Here is the next bit of information
it doesn’t appear to be easy to do either of those, from some quick testing. Looks like the <p> tags have bottom spacing which is causing the issue, mainly, at least in lemmy’s case. weird.</p>
Is there any way to keep some spacing?
will add an empty row, if that’s whats you meant. That’s what I currently use.
So in your example:
Here is some information
Here is the next bit of information
… will turn into:
Here is some information
Here is the next bit of information
Joplin, at least, will accept CSS formatting to correct some of this. You can also brute force it with HTML <br> tags.
Also due to markdown being a very badly defined “spec”.
I disagree. It isn’t badly defined, although vanilla Markdown includes some awkward choices. A few have been revised in other versions. But as a markup system that’s also human-readable, it’s a pretty handy tool.
Synthead@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s due to shitty rendering of Markdown. You’re doing it right. File bugs where you see it rendered funny.