on the philosophical aspects of a specification

david parsons orc at pell.portland.or.us
Wed Mar 5 14:38:13 EST 2008


In article <1F9AE98D-CD1E-424D-8B4C-584055CBFC90 at attacklab.net>,
John Fraser <markdown-discuss at six.pairlist.net> wrote:

>

>A list item's parent is the most recent list item whose bullet is

>indented less than its own. If there's no such parent, then the item

>belongs to a root-level list.

>

>http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2008-March/001076.html

>

>Is there any case where this doesn't do the right thing?


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.


-david parsons


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