Interpret <br> as native newline formatting

See issue 78 for screenshots/examples:

http://code.google.com/p/gitit/issues/detail?id=78


Newlines expressed '<br>' (as opposed to the '  $' or '$\' Markdown

conventions) vanish when going from Markdown to PDF via ConText, because

the Context generator in Pandoc discards them. '<br>' fills an

inline-newline niche ("foo<br>baz") that the other 2 conventions do not,

and so a user might want (and expect) <br> to work like the others.

That is, <br> would be treated not as raw HTML/HtmlInline but as a regular

linebreak. If pandoc is exporting to HTML, then that linebreak will get

turned right back into a <br>, and the other formats like Context will get

the linebreaks they ought to. (Offhand, I know of no situation where one

wants the <br> to go through verbatim, and which would also not see all

regular linebreaks turned into <br>s.)

(This general idea might also apply to some of the other simple HTML markup

like <i> or <b>, but probably not. Those all are inline formatting with

inline Markdown replacements.)

Google Code Info:

Issue #: 79

Author: gwe...@gmail.com

Created On: 2009-12-21T00:43:43.000Z

Closed On: