In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Fraser <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>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,
They are? I find some of the blocking rules somewhat infuriating
(that paragraphs are greedier at root level than they are inside
a list or quote) but a 4-space indent seems quite natural to me.
The attempts to reform list indentation by restricting the definition
of a list item seem like they'd cause more of a mess than they would
otherwise. I use lists all over the place, and I don't really want
to have to go back in and correct them all because a v2 spec corrected
markdown to the point where previously correct markup became incorrect.
(I get to deal with that all the time with gcc and their flexible
interpretation of the C programming language; I don't want to do it
with things I do for fun, not money.)
-david parsons
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