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Text reflow woes (or: I want bullets back!)y

Dave Gauer dave at ratfactor.com

Sat Jan 18 14:46:47 GMT 2020

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On 1/18/20 8:10 AM, James Tomasino wrote:
> From: solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG>
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> Yes, this means no nested lists.  It may seem like I've gone nuts and
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> suddenly happily let a whole bunch of complicated stuff into the spec,
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> but I really haven't!  This is still supposed to be a very simple
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> syntax, which inevitably comes with limitations.  There is no nested
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> anything in the whole syntax.
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> Love the + thing. If you think of lists and sublists hierarchically rather than nested then we do have a parallel, the # headers!
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> Ordered list:
> + List item one
> + List item 2
> ++ Level 2 item 1
> ++ Level 2 item 2
> 
> Unordered list:
> * List 1
> ** Deeper
> *** Maximum deepitude
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> And it maintains the whole "read the first 3 characters to determine what this is" rule. No extra tabbing or spacing to get in the way and follows similar conventions to the headings.

Hello!  I've been lurking throughout the entire long history of this discussion.  ("Wanted to contribute, but other commitments...etc. etc.")

I just wanted to pipe in to share my excitement about this simple 3-char rule.  I *love* the simplicity of "context-free" line-based parsing.

This reminds me of several times in which I've used an "indent level + sort order" in databases to simulate complex nested tree hierarchies to make rendering to the screen absolutely trivial.

For some reason, it had never occurred to me that counting the number of stars '*' at the beginning of the line logically amounted to the same thing.  This is wonderful.

I'm also strongly in favor of the Maximum Deepitude rule.

<3

-ratfactor