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
>

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