Sumana,

the regular

> ; bla : blub

is actually not the issue. More problematic are for example:

  ;; bla :: blub

  *; bla : blub

or even the simple

  ;; bla

Right now the behavior is quite inconsistent:
  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:GWicke/Definitionlists

The bug discussing this is
  https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6569

Treating '; bla : blub' as a tightly-bound special-case construct seems
to me the simplest way to make this area more consistent while avoiding
very ugly syntax. This would mean that

  *; bla : blub

is treated as equivalent to
  *; bla
  *: blub

and
  ;; bla :: blub

is equivalent to
  ;; bla
  ;: :blub

What are your preferences on this? Is any of these cases commonly used
today?

Gabriel


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