diff --git a/basics.text b/basics.text index 1ea71b3..cdf9bf6 100644 --- a/basics.text +++ b/basics.text @@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ A paragraph is simply one or more consecutive lines of text, separated by one or more blank lines. (A blank line is any line that looks like a blank line -- a line containing nothing but spaces or tabs is considered blank.) Normal paragraphs should not be indented with -spaces or tabs. +spaces or tabs. Note that Markdown expands all tabs to spaces using +tabstops set at 4 spaces apart. It performs this expansion before +doing anything else. Markdown offers two styles of headers: *Setext* and *atx*. Setext-style headers for `

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