On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Thomas Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having a spec/ruleset/syntax definition seems an admirable goal; does > this necessarily imply that, for example, you should not be able to > begin a list item with zero to three spaces, at your discretion? This > seems rather at odds with the overall theme of your mail, with which I > heartily agree.
As a slightly-OT aside, there's another view on this "spaces before a list item" issue that sees it as a bug. When I write a list of references in a academic paper, I do so with list items. I do a hanging indent where the rest of the reference is indented by two or three spaces, like so: * Aslam, J. A., Popa, R. A., & Rivest, R. L. (2007). On estimating the size and confidence of a statistical audit, USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop 2007. Retrieved February 24, 2008. from <http://www.usenix.org/events/evt07/tech/full_papers/aslam/aslam.pdf>. Markdown sees that " 2008." as a list item. <ul> <li>Aslam, J. A., Popa, R. A., & Rivest, R. L. (2007). On estimating the size and confidence of a statistical audit, USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop 2007. Retrieved February 24, <ol><li>from <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/evt07/tech/full_papers/aslam/aslam.pdf";>http://www.usenix.org/events/evt07/tech/full_papers/aslam/aslam.pdf</a>.</li></ol></li> </ul> best, Joe -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall UC Berkeley School of Information http://josephhall.org/ _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
