I am not a markdown user by default, and I was excited to see that BBCode was included in the drop down for my blog post. I noticed that my code blocks were getting additional carriage return in my posts, taking up some extra real estate on the page. I know this doesn’t do it in places that I’ve used BBCode before, like phpBB.

I converted my existing posts into Markdown for the time being, and I’ll probably dive into the BBCode parser and see if I can fix what’s going on with the additional br tags.

Update — If you’re using some similar CSS to mine here and you experience the oddness with BBCode you can edit the BBCode.py. On line 565 just comment out the replace statement.

def _prepare(self, bbcode):
    # Replace newlines with 'soft' brs
    #bbcode = bbcode.replace("\n", '[softbr]')

    # Replace emoticons with context-sensitive emoticon tags
    #for emoticon in _EMOTICON_LIST:
        #bbcode = bbcode.replace(emoticon,
            #'[emoticon]' + emoticon + '[/emoticon]')
    return bbcode