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authorJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2019-04-04 21:58:13 -0700
committerJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2019-04-04 21:58:13 -0700
commitbcf7f728e4f4240ec23dd38b1159a33a9584ce79 (patch)
tree5e64f1826f63918fae3f59d8ce6e9656fa608fbd
parent243df9b2f22e7bd94b7608b2dfceacbcfc00f497 (diff)
Don't strip spaces in code span containing only spaces.
This allows one to include a code span with just spaces, using the most obvious syntax. Fixes #569.
-rw-r--r--spec.txt13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/spec.txt b/spec.txt
index e882df4..c356348 100644
--- a/spec.txt
+++ b/spec.txt
@@ -5758,7 +5758,8 @@ following ways:
- First, [line endings] are converted to [spaces].
- If the resulting string both begins *and* ends with a [space]
- character, a single [space] character is removed from the
+ character, but does not consist entirely of [space]
+ characters, a single [space] character is removed from the
front and back. This allows you to include code that begins
or ends with backtick characters, which must be separated by
whitespace from the opening or closing backtick strings.
@@ -5818,6 +5819,16 @@ stripped in this way:
<p><code> b </code></p>
````````````````````````````````
+No stripping occurs if the code span contains only spaces:
+
+```````````````````````````````` example
+` `
+` `
+.
+<p><code> </code>
+<code> </code></p>
+````````````````````````````````
+
[Line endings] are treated like spaces: