I love the new little printer icons on the Careers 2.0 site, and I had occasion today to point someone to it.
Unfortunately, I discovered that the print view uses the raw Markdown text, without processing the formatting. Except that whitespace is being collapsed because it is rendered as HTML text instead. Here is what my personal statement becomes:
Having grown up with computers (I had "Winchester" drive platters under my bed and dismantled magnetic core memories for the parts), I naturally rolled into web development in the 90's as the internet came to the mainstream. I now can boast nearly 2 decades of experience in this field, having helped build [Zope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zope) and [Plone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_%28software%29), using these tools to build large-scale websites such as Boston.com and intranets for multinationals with thousands of employees. In short, I can make your web tech fly.
Where are my paragraphs? Why are the URLs so ugly? This is what it should look like:
Having grown up with computers (I had "Winchester" drive platters under my bed and dismantled magnetic core memories for the parts), I naturally rolled into web development in the 90's as the internet came to the mainstream.
I now can boast nearly 2 decades of experience in this field, having helped build Zope and Plone, using these tools to build large-scale websites such as Boston.com and intranets for multinationals with thousands of employees. In short, I can make your web tech fly.
Now, I can replace the inline URLs ([Zope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zope)) with numbered references ([Zope][1] plus [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zope) instead, but that won't restore the newline in my text. It doesn't look much better, in fact:
Having grown up with computers (I had "Winchester" drive platters under my bed and dismantled magnetic core memories for the parts), I naturally rolled into web development in the 90's as the internet came to the mainstream. I now can boast nearly 2 decades of experience in this field, having helped build [Zope][1] and [Plone][2], using these tools to build large-scale websites such as Boston.com and intranets for multinationals with thousands of employees. In short, I can make your web tech fly. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zope [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_%28software%29
Can we either:
- not use raw Markdown, just render it to HTML, adding in textual links Markdown-style as numbered references below that section, or
- same as 1., but damn the URLs, let them read blue underlined text on their print-outs, or
- use raw Markdown, let us candidates know explicitly, with a preview in our profile editor that you do this, and preserve newlines please. That way we can edit for readability both rendered and for printing.
