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In general, this is pretty standard. The only markdown I know of that works without a full paragraph break is the paragraph immediately following a heading. I'm not even sure it works if a heading doesn't have a double return before it. It's just still considered part of the prior block.
– Catija
Commented Dec 8, 2020 at 2:24
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@Catija in that case the preview rendering is broken since it doesn't follow this rule.
– Cave Johnson
Commented Dec 8, 2020 at 2:27
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That's fair. I'll be interested to see whether we can make work or not. 🙂
– Catija
Commented Dec 8, 2020 at 2:28
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@Catija What is the status of this bug, it still seems to be an issue
– Charlieface
Commented Oct 16, 2021 at 20:14
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@Catija Still broken. And it unfairly makes question authors look bad. Just saw a question with a table that didn't render as a table and was annoyed that they posted that anyway, but then in the editor I saw that the preview does render it as a table, so it's not their fault.
– Kelly Bundy
Commented Mar 9, 2022 at 15:40
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@Catija I ran into this bug today. Any information about the priority of this bug? Different codebases for preview and publish markdown make it difficult to maintain. 😕
– kirogasa
Commented Dec 6, 2022 at 11:09
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rpg.stackexchange.com/posts/204156/revisions still occurring :(
– Mooing Duck
Commented Jan 22, 2023 at 0:56
@Catija This bug tripped up a user on Webmasters today. Before seeing the inconsistent behavior of the edit window and digging to find this thread, I had assumed like others that the user just didn't check their preview before posting a garbled table.
– Maximillian Laumeister
Commented Jan 26, 2023 at 8:48
Seems like it's still unfixed, barely over 3 years to the day this was originally reported: stackoverflow.com/posts/77641560/revisions
– esqew
Commented Dec 11, 2023 at 18:15
This just happened for me in puzzling.stackexchange.com because the answer is automatically put in a spoiler, but the preview gave no indication that it would happen.
– Danny Rorabaugh
Commented Apr 5 at 20:36

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