Hi, When you block format a paragraph, it gets split into separate lines so you need to style them separately:
""" //This is a line// ''and this is a new line'' //while this is yet another line// """ The issue is with how HTML itself treats block and inline elements, I think. Regards, Richard On Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 1:32:46 PM UTC+11, AndrewMc wrote: > > Hi All > > I need to have hard linebreaks appear in some of my text (a quoted part a > poem). > I followed the instructions at > https://tiddlywiki.com/#Hard%20Linebreaks%20in%20WikiText and > successfully had the line breaks appear. > However, as soon as I added italics or bold formatting to the entire block > of text, the line breaks disappeared. > > The following wikitext works: > """ > This is a line > and this is a new line > while this is yet another line > """ > > This is a line > and this is a new line > while this is yet another line > ------------- > > However, adding italics or bold to the inside of the whole block removes > the line breaks: > """ > //This is a line > and this is a new line > while this is yet another line// > """ > > """ > ''This is a line > and this is a new line > while this is yet another line'' > """ > > *This is a line and this is a new line while this is yet another line* > > > *This is a line and this is a new line while this is yet another line* > > Note that the italics (or bold) formatting doesn't have to surround the > whole block of text for the line breaks to be affected. If the formatted > text encompasses a line break, then that line break will not appear. > ------------- > > If I put the formatting outside the hard line break block, then both the > formatting and the line breaks appear: > > //""" > This is a line > and this is a new line > while this is yet another line > """// > > > > *This is a lineand this is a new linewhile this is yet another line* > > Is this expected behaviour, or have I discovered a small bug in the > wikitext processing? > > Cheers > Andrew Mc > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/ce3a009f-458f-4ffe-8a7b-67d4250f8e8d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.