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Stratoscope on Nov 23, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft REST API Guidelines

Another rule to memorize: if one of the reasons for using code formatting is to preserve line breaks, simply add an extra blank line between paragraphs. Think of each line as its own paragraph. Then the text will be readable on any device.

tasogare on Nov 23, 2019 [–]

That’s still super annoying. An annoyance shared with markdown (which at least has the double space at end of line trick, which is super ugly).

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