Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] Text before unordered list breaks unless there's a double line.

[Waylan L. <way...@ic...>]

Commonmark and Markdown are not the same. At best, Commonmark is a derivative of Markdown which, by its own admission, behaviors differently than Markdown in some very specific ways. This is one of those ways. The Commonmark spec <https://spec.commonmark.org/0.28/#list-items> specifically permits a list to "interrupt a paragraph” while the Markdown rules <https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list>  (which Python-Markdown follows) disallow that. According to the Markdown rules (and the reference implementation) a list must always be preceded by a blank line. This is a feature, not a bug. For example, this problem <https://stackoverflow.com/q/37464769/866026> is avoided with Markdown’s behavior.

Waylan Limberg



> On Dec 26, 2018, at 5:47 PM, Humberto Ayres Pereira <hum...@pa...> wrote:
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> Text
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>> * item 1
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>> This is one block, you require two, so use the required layout?
> 
> Sure,  it in GitHub Markdown it’s 2 blocks. I was just confused.
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