From: David G. <go...@py...> - 2003-08-04 18:25:39
|
Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > The upside of indented lists would be the ability to unambiguosly > write nested lists with no empty lines at all:: > > Text > - Item > - Item > - Item > - Item containing a dash on next line > - that is a single paragraph. No, leaving out the blank lines makes definition lists. Won't work. > Another way to attack this problem would be an RFC 2646 mode where > trailing spaces before a newline are treated as a soft newline, > while a newline without a space before always terminates a > paragraph. This too would allow reliable list detection but unless > one uses an editor that highlights soft vs. hard newlines, it's even > more subtle... Yes, that's too subtle. > As I'm now chasing the links too, here are the threads: Thanks for the links. The Doc-SIG link is much later in the discussion than what I meant though. I've incorporated the significant links back into the To-Do list. Here's a direct (and typo-free) link to the item: <http://docutils.sf.net/spec/notes.html#indented-lists>. -- David Goodger http://starship.python.net/~goodger For hire: http://starship.python.net/~goodger/cv Docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/ (includes reStructuredText: http://docutils.sf.net/rst.html) |