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New-Line-to-Break Extension
===========================

Summary
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The New-Line-to-Break (`nl2b`) Extension will cause newlines to be treated as hard breaks; like
StackOverflow and [GitHub][] flavored Markdown do.

[Github]: http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/

Example
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    >>> import markdown
    >>> text = """
    ... Line 1
    ... Line 2
    ... """
    >>> html = markdown.markdown(text, extensions=['markdown.extensions.nl2br'])
    >>> print html
    <p>Line 1<br />
    Line 2</p>

Usage
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See [Extensions](index.html) for general extension usage, specify `markdown.extensions.nl2br`
as the name of the extension.

This extension does not accept any special configuration options.