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Fri Oct 23 19:48:27 BST 2020
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- In 5.5.2 it is stated that lines beginning with "* " are elements of
an unordered list, and I assumed the space after '*' is required since
it is included in the double quotes, when I asked for clarification on IRC,
others suggested I handle '*' with or without space afterwards, so I
did.
I would disagree with this. Originally there was no space required in thespec, but this was changed, because some people may start lines withasterisks as an "ASCII-art" way to show emphasis. To allow this writingstyle to continue, you should require the space after the asterisk. This iswhat the spec defines.
- In 5.5.3, I had the same question with quotes, the spec says "
" which
sounds like there should be no space after "
", and if there is a space,
I should treat it like a part of the quote, I asked on IRC if I should
follow that behaviour but others also recommended that I should handle
spaces after "
" just in case, which leaves me to think again if the
spec intended that or not.
Initially no line markers required a space after them. The list line markernow does, as I described above, but the quote line marker was not changed,as there doesn't seem to be a reason to. There doesn't seem to be writingstyles that start lines with a '
', but aren't referring to a quote. Workingwithout the space also follows markdown, which is a plus.
Cheers,makeworld