I tried to make these characters: [var str = "Some \ ] show as having a space at the end without the brackets involved, but was not able to. While that would be doable on
var str = "Some \
that syntax, it's hard to indicate there's a space after the slash.
SOOOO, without using another character (like a light mid dot) to indicate the space therein, is that possible with markdown?
For reference:
var str = "Some \ //has a space
vs
var str = "Some \ //does not have a space
If you need to make it apparent that there's a space, you'll have to do more than put one, you'll have to emphasize it elsewhere anyway. Compare, visually:
no space here \
but there is a space here \
(rendered with an unbreakable space, which is not a good idea when posting code since if you do copy-paste it it usually won't work). So you might as well use a visually distinct character, traditionally ␣:
explicitly indicated space \␣ (note that ␣ means a space character)
There's a similar problem when you need to indicate a literal control character, which is less frequent but does happen occasionally:
␛knew title␛\ (where ␛ means a literal escape character, i.e., press Ctrl+V then Esc)
You can do this by prepending the line with space characters, instead of using backticks.
The following line should end with 6 spaces
var str = "Some \
vs
var str = "Some \ //does not have a space
But I'm not sure how to do this within a backtick code block.
<code>tag which doesn't clobber spaces on rendering. What would you propose? It may just be incumbent upon the poster to indicate that spaces belong there.