Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote on 2008/03/02 18:26:
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 10:00 AM, John Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tightening up indentation rules is definitely a breaking change, and I
don't see any payoff for users here. If anything, we should be making
indentation rules more lenient.
My only desire is to figure out a way to allow the
whitspace-before-list-marker and also avoid the more general class of
"bugs" where a list is triggered by a sentence ending with a number on
an indented newline.
The reference citation I sent out on another thread is one example but
anything of the following form will trigger this:
* This is a list item with a hanging indent ending with a number,
4. The rest is considered a child of a new ordered list, no matter
what I do to this paragraph (other than rephrase to get rid of the
hanging-indented digit+dot).
Which produces
<ul>
<li>This is a list item with a hanging indent ending with a number,
<ol><li>The rest is considered a child of a new ordered list, no matter
what I do to this paragraph (other than rephrase to get rid of the
hanging-indented digit+dot).</li></ol></li>
</ul>
Is this something we're comfortable with? If not, can we come up with
something that avoids this? best, Joe
Actually, when I first read your example I was confused -- I thought
'4.' was a second-level bullet point, despite the comma on the preceding
line. If a human (admittedly a very tired one) can make this
interpretation, I can live with a Markdown processor making it also.
John's proposed approach in
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2007-July/000690.html
seems to fit well with what a naive (tired) human might expect to
happen. As ever, YMMV.
-- Thomas.
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