When I want to start a new line, I've always used <br>. I'm wondering if there's a better way, however, that only uses Markdown. I'm aware that if you insert two line breaks, leaving a blank line, it works, like this:
But what if I don't want a blank line like you see above this line? I don't have a problem with using <br>, but it just seems like such a common task shouldn't require four extra characters when Markdown is supported.
<br/>.<h1>through<h3>.#through###to create the headings. I edited your post to give you an example.