Re: [Docutils-users] Really surprising behavior

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

David Abrahams wrote:
> When I format the following as HTML with the current CVS
> 
> ---
> * User Guided wrapping
>    * Require minimal user intervention
>    * But intervention must be possible when needed
> ---
> 
> It looks like:
> 
> ---
> *
>         User Guided wrapping
>                 * Require minimal user intervention
>                 * But intervention must be possible when needed
> ---
> 
> Is that to be expected?

Pretty much.  The indentation of nested lists is critical.  It's informative
to see how the parser interprets this input.  I use the command::

    python tools/quicktest.py

And feed the above as input to stdin, this is what comes out
(wrapped a bit)::

    <document source="<stdin>">
        <bullet_list bullet="*">
            <list_item>
                <definition_list>
                    <definition_list_item>
                        <term>
                            User Guided wrapping
                        <definition>
                            <bullet_list bullet="*">
                                <list_item>
                                    <paragraph>
                                        Require minimal user
                                        intervention
                                <list_item>
                                    <paragraph>
                                        But intervention must be
                                        possible when needed

You've got a bullet list item containing a definition list item
containing a bullet list in the definition.  Reduce the indentation of
lines 2 & 3 by one space each and I think you'll get what you want.

> Why the CR after the initial bullet?

That I can't tell you.  What browser?  What stylesheet?

> The command I used was:
> 
>     python /src/docutils/tools/html.py --embed-stylesheet -gdts \
>         fu.txt fu.html

Was the stylesheet successfully embedded?  Please check.

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