On Mar 5, 2008, at 2:38 PM, david parsons wrote:
  When I write a really long list,

   *  sometimes, after a particularly long and
      detailed list item, I'll lose track of the
      exact indentation and
    * add one too many spaces to the leading
      indent.

   so it would be bad if that broke nesting.

Good point. But Markdown's indentation rules are a mess, and I don't think there's any way to fix them without breaking some examples like this. Hell, I don't see how we can achieve a standard unless we're willing to break a few edges cases in the various implementations.

Again, tools might help here: I'd love it if we could build conversion utilities that run, say, Markdown.pl's algorithm over some input, produce an abstract syntax tree, and then output that in the new version of Markdown. Pie in the sky, but worth considering.
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