In the Preview-Mode the brakes of the lines get “delated”.
List are not getting affected by this dynamic.
I also not like how the lines are getting moved away from each other. Looks like the page is getting zoomed out. At my examples it is not so hard, I had other times where it was more significant.
Obsidian renders text in Reading View according to the Markdown specs. If you want a list to be rendered as a list, you need to mark it up as a list. (I’d use a code block for paths.)
Or you could modify Obsidian’s settings for “Strict line breaks”:
The markdown engine used for source mode and live preview is not the same as the engine used for reading mode. As long as these are different, there will always be differences between how they display the rendered markdown.
In general, the reading mode is considered to be a slightly more “correct” rendering, and the html is cleaner. The two editing variants, needs to stretch the standards slightly in order to allow for them to be editable, and this will also cause them to differ more from the reading mode.
In other words, you are going to experience differences between live preview and reading mode. If you write correct markdown, this will be less noticeable, and your choice of ending the line with just a new line (and not the common two spaces at end of line) do break with the commonmark markdown syntax. Some of these differences can be adjusted to some extent, but there will always be differences.