[Python-markdown-discuss] nested list in markdown

[Waylan L. <wa...@gm...>]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Benoit Chesneau <be...@co...> wrote:
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> On 25 sept. 08, at 15:07, Waylan Limberg wrote:
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>> Hi Benoit,
>>
>> I justed edited that page you linked to and it works fine. The problem
>> is that python-markdown *requires* four spaces of indent and you only
>> had two. I realize some other implementations of markdown are not so
>> strict about that, but the way python-markdown works it's not easy to
>> make it more lax.
>>
>> I'm not sure why your preview was working.
>>
>
> Mmmm the markdown syntax don't require 4 4 spaces, isn't it ?
>

This has been a point of contention on the general markdown list from
time to time. It seems that most prefer the more lax interpretation -
but not everyone. The code in that part of python-markdown is some of
the oldest code and we really need to refactor it. If/when we do,
hopefully it'll be able to understand more lax indentation.



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