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Creating hard line breaks in markdown files
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Methods for making linebreaks in markdown

The linebreak is pretty essential element in content,
yet it's hard to find info about creating them in Markdown.

HTML line break

foo <br>
bar

foo
bar

Double spaces

Not ideal as the linebreak is an invisible character

foo  <-- two spaces
bar

foo
bar

Empty newline (not actually a linebreak)

Creates two paragraphs and not a line-break

foo

bar

foo

bar

Backslash (the best one)

foo \  <-- The space is not required
bar

foo
bar

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