Subject: Re: Re: Formatting problem of lists in reST
Newsgroups: gmane.text.docutils.user
Date: 2005-11-19 21:06:07 GMT (2 years, 24 weeks, 5 days, 22 hours and 34 minutes ago)
[Felix Wiemann] > OK, the whitespace doubling is bad. But we could say: "Lists that are > not arabic and consist of only one item in a single line are treated as > ordinary paragraphs." > > I thought we would need the double whitespace for cases where it's > really needed to have such a degenerate list, but it's easier to use the > existing syntax: > > A. > This is a list. > > Provided that > <http://docutils.sf.net/BUGS.html#list-items-with-an-empty-first-line> > is fixed, though. +1. It's tricky to solve though, because it requires look-ahead (or clean-up-after). -- David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>