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solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG
Sun Jun 7 17:57:24 BST 2020
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On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 04:41:49PM +0000, James Tomasino wrote:
On 6/7/20 4:27 PM, solderpunk wrote:
The definition of unordered list item lines has been changed so that
they begin not just with "*" but with "* ".
Lines beginning with "
" are now defined to be quote lines, as per
popular demand.
Just to be clear, lists have a mandatory space after them, but for
quotes and headings and links the whitespace is still set to zero-or-more?
That's how it current is, yeah.
This is, indeed, an inconsistency. It arises from the fact that * isthe only one of the characters which are significant for determiningline types which has a strongly-engrained alternative use which has ledto actual erroneous formatting in the wild.
We *could* change this. I don't see a really strong argument againstit, and consistency is good for learnability. Then again, assuming thatclients are stripping leading whitespace from these line types, ifpeople get "the wrong idea" that those spaces are mandatory, it doesn'tactually cause any harm.
Cheers,Solderpunk