Newline

In normal text a single newline is treated as whitespace.

Newline Paragraph

Two consecutive new lines or a newline followed by a line with only whitespace is treated as a new paragraph (<p> … </p>) . All unclosed formatting should be closed.

Newline in code

Newlines in between { { { and } } } are ignored and printed as newlines.

Forced newline

Two consecutive slashes \\ force a newline. <br> This does not represent the end of the paragraph, and special characters following the slashes do not have the meaning at the beginning of a line. I.e. Line One\\#A hash produces

Line One
#A hash

Forced Paragraph

Three consecutive slashes \\\ should force a new paragraph. </p><p> This does not represent a normal end of paragraph, formatting should continue and special characters following the slashes do not have the meaning at the beginning of a line. I.e. Line One\\\#A hash produces

Line One

#A hash

(Check: does HTML allow <strong></p><p></strong> ???)

New Line in tables and lists

A new line in a table or a list has a special meaning in that it marks the end of one row.

Ignore new line in tables and lists

Because a newline has a special meaning in a table or list, and because some tables and lists are too long (with e.g. links) to display on one line, it is necessary to have a newline which is ignored by the Creole parser.

This could either be a tilda at the end of a line (i.e. only whitespaces after) or in line with \\ & \\\ it could be \. I.e.

 |This is table text [[http://www.example.com/jhlkj/fasdfdsa_fdsf/donuts.php?table=9732984|donut]] ~
which goes on [[http://www.example.com/jhlkj/fasdfdsa_fdsf/peanut.php?table=9732984|peanut]] ~
and on [[http://www.example.com/jhlkj/fasdfdsa_fdsf/rabbit.php?table=9732984|rabbit]] 

and/or

|This is table text[[http://www.example.com/jhlkj/fasdfdsa_fdsf/donuts.php?table=9732984|donut]]\
which goes on [[http://www.example.com/jhlkj/fasdfdsa_fdsf/peanut.php?table=9732984|peanut]] \
and on [[http://www.example.com/jhlkj/fasdfdsa_fdsf/rabbit.php?table=9732984|rabbit]]