On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 9:58 AM secretsnail9 via agora-discussion <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 9:16 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-business < > agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > Gratuitous: > > CFJ 3778 found that list items could have whole line breaks inserted > > between them and removed because they were not significant. This is > > not true with paragraphs. If the section of text with ' - Gardens" is > > taken to begin a paragraph, and is followed by additional list items > > where the whitespace could be removed, the replaced paragraph would > > include all of those line items. Or at least it is unclear where the > > paragraph ends. > > > > Looking at this CFJ (3778), it seems to say the opposite about line breaks > within a paragraph: > > CFJ 3452 ruled that paragraph boundaries should be determined based mainly > on grammatical structure rather than layout. Following its reasoning, "A" > above would all be considered a single paragraph, since it's a single > grammatical sentence; therefore, there are no "paragraph breaks" to > contend with and the changes *[inserting whole line breaks within a > paragraph]* are definitely insignificant. > > > Grammatically, each list item looks to be its own paragraph. The list > items following the "- Gardens" list item are not able to have all of > their whitespace removed, as this would contradict CFJ 3778: "[there > is] a prohibition on > merging or splitting paragraphs". > > If there was any ambiguity of whether the list items are all part of > one paragraph, or each their own paragraph, the proposal resolves that > ambiguity by referring to one of the list items as a paragraph.
Interestingly, this argument had the opposite effect on me. Before you said it, I thought "we've all agreed these are list items not paragraphs, the question is whether a proposal mistakenly referring to an otherwise clearly-specified unit as a "paragraph" breaks things. Now I'm thinking it's ambiguous whether they are paragraphs or list items to begin with (that is, more ambiguity not less) and I don't think a proposal has the ability to clarify that just by assertion. -G.
