Re: [Docutils-users] List item rendering to HTML as blockquote

[David G. <go...@py...>]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Shawn Wheatley <swh...@gm...> wrote:
> I have the following snippet of reST that I'm trying to render to html, using
> the rst2html.py script that ships with Docutils 0.4
>
> --- Begin Snippet ---
>
> 1. test
>
>  * this ends up a block quote
>
> 2. test
>
> --- End Snippet ---
...
> I can't find anything on the list archives or elsewhere with someone having this
> problem. Am I using the wrong syntax, or is this a bug in the HTML writer?

You're not indenting enough. It looks like you're using one or two
spaces only; you need 3. If you want the bullet list to be a part of
item 1, at the same level as the paragraph "test", the bullet needs to
line up with "test". For example (and since email often messes with
whitespace, I'll use periods to illustrate leading spaces):

1. test

...* this will not be a block quote

2. test

.......* this will be a block quote

For an exhaustive description, see
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#indentation
(and sections relevant to the constructs you're using, like bullet
lists and enumerated lists).

-- 
David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>