Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote on 2008/02/29 17:14:
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.
Perhaps a first step to resolving the much broader question of whether
to define a formal grammar, a ruleset, a textual description or whatever
could be just to reach consensus on some of these questions? As Yuri
mentioned, "code block syntax" is still an open loop, as is "indentation
before list item marker" and many others. In the interests of starting
to close some of these loops, I'll kick this one to a separate thread -
and if we can reach consensus, it can be documented and referenced in
any spec/docs/implementations anyone cares to create.
Once we have a set of these "consensus opinions" hammered out, it makes
some sense to me that we then start talking about a spec, a set of rules
and so on - IETF-style, but perhaps with rather shorter RFCs...
-- Thomas.
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