Should leading and trailing spaces between backticks be preserved?

[David Chambers]

>

> Then what about ` ``foo`` ` ?



Excellent point. That I had not considered. Perhaps what I'm trying to
achieve is simply not possible using pure Markdown.

*Edge cases.* >.<


On 13 February 2011 12:49, Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:


> Le 2011-02-13 à 15:31, David Chambers a écrit :

>

> >> Well, yes, it might be wrong, but that's how the language works ("one

> after

> >> the opening, one before the closing" is what <

> >> http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#code> says, And it

> >> gives an example (`` `foo` ``) as well.

> >

> > John's examples suggest that this stripping should apply only within ``

> > double-backticked `` contexts. I imagine his intention was to avoid the

> > leading and trailing spaces in `` `foo` `` (required by the syntax) from

> > being included in the output. I can't imagine any reason to strip

> whitespace

> > in regular ` single-backticked ` contexts.

>

> Then what about ` ``foo`` ` ?

>

>

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> Michel Fortin

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>

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