spaces and newlines before list markers (was: evolving the spec)

[david parsons]

In article <fa4efbc00802291558t35aeed62o329ed3bde495e3a0 at mail.gmail.com>,
Yuri Takhteyev <markdown-discuss at six.pairlist.net> wrote:


>Is it so much work, though, to then change the numbers of just the

>first two items to "1." and "2."?  Note that I am not suggesting that

>all numbers must be consecutive - just the first two.  In fact, I

>would also throw in the idea of making the numbers themselves optional

>for all subsequent elements.  I.e. the following should be enough:

>

>1. Item one

>2. Item two

> . Item three

> . Item four

> . Item five


 
   But that's not very readable, is it?

   When I look at a list in the source document, I'd expect to see
   a list.    I don't know of very many (if any) cases where the
   numbers in the list just sort of trail off and leave every item
   prefixed with a bullet.



   -david parsons