Spaces following quotes disappear

Rick Charon rickcharon at gmail.com
Sun Mar 20 16:13:03 EDT 2011


Thanks Joel,
Puting that does the trick.
Rick

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Joel Sanda <joelsanda at dwimordene.net>wrote:


> On 3/19/2011 4:41 PM, Rick Charon wrote:

>

>> I have a line that includes a double quotation mark followed by 5

>> spaces, and then some text, like so:

>> " global"

>> when it is converted with markdown, the spaces disappear, so it results in

>> "global"

>> Is there a way to keep these spaces in there?

>> Thanks for any help.

>> Rick

>>

>>

> Have you tried "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;global"?

>

> Using WriteMonkey's export to web browser the source from Firefox was this:

>

> <p>"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;global"</p>

>

> - joel

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