Marked doesn't work with literal newlines about marked

[chjj]

There is no such thing as literal or non-literal newlines/line-feeds at runtime. Newlines are just bytes at runtime.

Your line feed there is being escaped by the backslash, which is why you're able to (syntactically) create a multiple-line string. A newline is not actually added to the string because it had to be escaped in order to do that. It's just a syntactic feature of javascript.

This is the case anywhere else in javascript too:

var a = 'hello  \
world';
console.log(a);
console.log(a.length);
console.log(a.indexOf('\n') === -1);
console.log(a !== 'hello  \nworld');

[OscarGodson]

Awh, I see, ok thanks!