On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Fernando Basso <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I just wonder why the author of asciidoc never considered (since it also
> generates html)
> that people might want or even need something like that. Is that type of
> situation so
> infrequent that it doesn't even make sense to allow it?
>

We allow this in Asciidoctor. You simply have to modulate the length of the
delimiter since Asciidoctor uses exact matches for delimiter lines. This
won't work for open blocks since open blocks can only be 2 characters atm.
It does work for other types.

As Lex pointed out, however, there are some blocks for which is makes no
sense (like listing and literal blocks) and in other cases, it's just not a
great idea to be nesting (like a sidebar in a sidebar).

I am leaning towards the idea of having a general purpose block for
creating compound structures. I think something similar to an open block
would work well for this purpose. There's an open issue to discuss it in
the Asciidoctor issue tracker. See
https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/1121

-Dan


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