This. And proper line breaks help a lot, too. There's a reason single line breaks are ignored.
> People have mentioned tables here, and...yeah, they're messy, ...
IIRC, the "original" markdown does not include tables. They've been added by GitHub (I think), because it made sense for them, and many parsers started to adopt. I agree they are not easily readable in "source mode". It helps to properly align stuff, though, but it's a PITA.
> proper line breaks help a lot, too. There's a reason single line breaks are ignored.
Documents that don't hard-wrap (they could opt to hard-wrap without consequence, to your point), when viewed somewhere that doesn't make it trivial to engage soft-wrap, are much more of an issue than the tag barf mentioned earlier, IMHO.
This. And proper line breaks help a lot, too. There's a reason single line breaks are ignored.
> People have mentioned tables here, and...yeah, they're messy, ...
IIRC, the "original" markdown does not include tables. They've been added by GitHub (I think), because it made sense for them, and many parsers started to adopt. I agree they are not easily readable in "source mode". It helps to properly align stuff, though, but it's a PITA.