#417 Bullets broken in rST on 0.17 with Sphinx (extensions)

[Robert R]

When building projects locally or on readthedocs with docutils==0.17 that contain rST with bullets (e.g. *), the bullets are not appearing. They do appear with docutils==0.16.

[Robert R]

Note: In case this isn't globally an issue, it is occurring in edx projects like: https://github.com/edx/edx-toggles/blob/d00ef3bc902d35e4131d374acb5ae1ce00af7b33/requirements/doc.txt#L59.

[Günter Milde]

Thank you for reporting a problem with the new Docutils version.
Unfortunately, we cannot help without further information.

Please tell us,

• whether this is a problem with literal bullet characters or "bullet lists" (ordinary bullet lists or just some special cases?)
• whether this problem affects all writers or a specific output format (HTML4, HTML5, LaTex, OpenOffice, man pages, XML).
• whether it is presentational (e.g. <ul> in HTML but no bullets in the browser.²

• whether it is present in any Sphinx-processed rst or only under special conditions.

• Bullet-lists¹ work as expected with stock Docutils (rst2html4.py, rst2html5.py, rst2latex.py, ...).

• Asterisk characters, hyphens and other bullet characters work as expected in any place in the source with stock Docutils.

¹ https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/user/rst/quickref.html#bullet-lists

² There are some changes in the HTML5 stylesheets which might interfere with custom styles or CSS or templating frameworks.

[Robert R]

Thank you. Digging deeper, the HTML is fine and it turns out there is a styling issue for us where the following style now has a higher priority:

li {
    list-style: none
}

Since we are using outdated theme code, I am going to assume this is our own issue for now.

Thank you again for pointing me in the right direction. I think you can close this ticket.

[Ned Batchelder]

I think this is due to <div class="section"> changing to <section>. Our theme used ".section".