[Pmwiki-users] Re: Idea for extension of special list syntax

[chr@home.se]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Neil Herber wrote:

> >     * list item 1
> >       continued list item 1
> >       * list item 2
> >         continued list item 2
> >       * list item 3
> >         continued list item 3
> >        still list item 3
> >       continuation of list item 1
> >        still list item 1
> >      even more list item 1
> >     Normal paragraph text

> This is completely unreadable in edit form and it doesn't even make sense 
> to me. I would hope to see:
> 
> >     * list item 1
> >       continued list item 1
> >       * list item 2
> >         continued list item 2
> >       * list item 3
> >         continued list item 3
> >        still list item 3
> >       continuation of list item 3
> >        still list item 3
> >      even more list item 3
> >
> >     Normal paragraph text

I agree at least partly with Neil here. Using the interpretatation from 
above seems bad and it seems much more robust using the lower alternative. 
However, I could also consider (and it's how I originally imagined it) 
this interpretation:

> >     * list item 1
> >       continued list item 1
> >       * list item 2
> >         continued list item 2
> >       * list item 3
> >         continued list item 3
> >        preformatted text
> >       preformatted text
> >         preformatted text

One reason for that is that I'd probably have a hard time *not* going in 
and making the text aligned in the second interpretatioin... maybe I have 
a mental problem that way? ;-)

/Christian

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