How do you add a new line in a Markdown presentation, similar to using \newline in TeX?

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How do you add a new line in a Markdown presentation, similar to using \newline in TeX?

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Hello Anusha,

Markdown supports “hard-wrapped” text paragraphs, meaning “one or more consecutive lines of text” form a single paragraph. This differs significantly from most other text-to-HTML formatters, such as Movable Type’s “Convert Line Breaks” option, which converts every line break character in a paragraph into a <br /> tag.

To insert a <br /> break tag in Markdown, you need to end a line with two or more spaces and then press return.

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Hey Anusha,

Markdown provides three ways to break a line:

  1. Using the <br /> tag:

    First Line <br /> Second Line

  2. Using the backslash \:

    First Line sentence \
Second Line sentence

  3. By pressing the space key twice:

    First Line sentence␠␠
Second Line sentence

You can use the <br /> tag within paragraphs to create line breaks. Alternatively, for multiple sentences, use either the backslash \ or press the space key twice followed by Enter to start a new sentence.

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Hello Anusha,

Neither a double space nor a backslash \ at the end of a paragraph worked for me. However, having a blank line between text in the code did, as did adding <p> at the start of the paragraph (adding </p> at the end wasn’t necessary).

For example:

First paragraph

Second paragraph

<p>First paragraph
<p>Second paragraph