I'm a big fan of this proposal... seems to nicely take care of my dorky edge case. best, Joe
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Michel Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 2008-03-02 à 22:14, Seumas Mac Uilleachan a écrit : > > > > What's needed is a way to distinguish your edge case from the > > general case where it would be a list. Do you use two white spaces > > to preserve the line breaks? Perhaps that could be the trigger in > > this case - a line ending in two white spaces prevents the next line > > from being formatted as a new list. > > I don't think that's a good idea. Two spaces at the end of a line > means a line break, not an end of the current paragraph. > > > > I just tested this edge case in PHP Markdown Extra and it does the > > same thing (both with and without the two white spaces for newlines). > > Indeed. I'm not sure what could be done here however, but here is an > idea. > > John changed things a long time ago now so that it doesn't pose a > problem for text at the root of the document by forcing a blank line > to be present before a list when not inside a list. I'm thinking that > we could do the same for the content of list item parsed as block- > level content. For instance, here you would have a nested ordered list: > > * Blah blah blah > 1. blah blah > * Blah blah blah > > Here too: > > * Blah blah blah > > 1. blah blah > > * Blah blah blah > > But not in the next examples. Here the "1." list marker wouldn't be > accepted because we're in a block-level list element (since there is a > blank line between the two items): > > > * Blah blah blah > 1. blah blah > > * Blah blah blah > > Same here, because there is a blank line inside the list item: > > * Blah blah blah > > Blah blah blah > 1. blah blah > * Blah blah blah > > Perhaps that's a too subtle distinction, but it's my preferred > solution to date. > > > Michel Fortin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://michelf.com/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss > -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall UC Berkeley School of Information http://josephhall.org/ _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
