Use of hard line breaks

The current docs use hard line breaks extensively, especially in the description entries in properties tables and description lists. Although they serve a useful purpose, generally speaking, the rendering that they effect can be preserved through other means.

Alternate markup, such as the use of list continuations vs. hard breaks can accomplish a similar, yet "legal" result for these entries. These look similar, because they both use the + character, but continuations, which just tie together paragraphs within a block don't place a space before the character. In some cases, it might be possible to dispense with the extra markup altogether. For example:

property name:: 
Description

Default value::: VALUE
option1::: blah blah blah
option2::: blah blah blah

property name 2::
Description
Default value::: VALUE
option1::: blah blah blah
option2::: blah blah blah

This renders correctly as:

property name
   Description
   Default value 
      VALUE
   option1
      blah blah blah
   option2
      blah blah blah 

property name 2
   Description
   Default value 
     VALUE

   option1
      blah blah blah
   option2
      blah blah blah