René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Formatting of newlines in gitbook","articleBody":"gitbook is the tool that we use to host https://patterns.innersourcecommons.org.\n\ngitbook has (recently) changed the way that newline characters (`\\n`) in our markdown files are rendered.\n\nPreviously a single newline character did not generate a line break.\nThat meant that we could format our pattern files like below to allow for easier line-based commenting when reviewing patterns.\n\n```\nThere's a central project that everyone depends on.\nWhat a great candidate for InnerSource!\nUnfortunately, the project has grown organically, with various contributions and additions slapped on haphazardly.\n```\n\nRecently gitbook made change in this rendering logic. Now such text in markdown is rendered exactly as shown i.e. each newline in the markdown also leads to a line break in the rendered HTML. This does not look great. See screenshot below.\n\n![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b7d12a3f-25ba-459e-a569-93d1288bffe5)\n\n\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/spier","@type":"Person","name":"spier"},"datePublished":"2025-03-27T12:48:29.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":6},"url":"https://github.com/805/InnerSourcePatterns/issues/805"}