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He is also the author of the CommonMark spec: https://spec.commonmark.org/0.30/, https://commonmark.org

RE goal 7: here is my questioning of that goal and JGM's response, my counter, etc: https://talk.commonmark.org/t/djot-a-light-markup-language-b....

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I get the thrust of "not wanting to pay for hard-wrapping" but I'm not sure I understand what you think a better design would be; does a single newline always introduce a new block element?

No. Within a paragraph it would introduce a hard line break, e.g. like you'd use for poetry. You'd use two line breaks, i.e. a blank line, to start a new paragraph.

In other words, the plain text analog to WYSIWYG.

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