On Mar 5, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Waylan Limberg wrote:
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Vinay Augustine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
* no spaces - level 1
* 4 spaces - level 2
* 6 spaces - level 3
* 2 spaces - level 1.5 ???
With the rule just proposed, wouldn't the last line simply be level
2?
I think this rule has the bonus of being obvious. If it doesn't do
what someone expects, they can look at what they wrote and say "oh,
as
long as I indent more than the previous level, it will make a
sub-list." (of course, that could just be obvious since we're talking
about it).
To me that is not at all obvious. If it were to work as you propose,
then the spec needs to specifically indicate that that is the expected
behavior.
Perhaps the reason this is *not* obvious to me is that I have a
relatively strong background coding python. In python code, whitespace
is significant. In fact, with few exceptions indentation is the only
way to indicate nesting. The above nesting would **break** at compile
time in python code. This is a "feature" and considered a "good thing"
by most python users.
Maybe down the road it'll be worth building something like a Markdown-
lint, so we can warn users when they do wacky stuff like this. But it
absolutely shouldn't be part of Markdown itself; we just need to do
the best we can with the input we've got. And personally, I think
having that last item be level 2 is pretty reasonable. That's how I'd
read it.
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