[pmwiki-users] LIst item with several paragraphs, how?

[Dominique Faure]

On 2/20/07, David Spitzley <dspitzle at wash.k12.mi.us> wrote:
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> David
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> >>> Sandy <sandy at onebit.ca> 2/20/2007 1:25 PM >>>
> Jan Erik Moström wrote:
> > Reply to Mark Trumpold <mark at ruthtrumpold.id.au> 07-02-20 15:42:
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> >> Not sure but does the # or * or -> markup not work?
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> > If I want to write a list item that contains several paragraphs
> > like this
> >
> > +   bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
> >      bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
> >      bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
> >      bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
> >
> >      bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
> >      bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
> >      bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
> >      bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
> >
> > and use -> like this
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> > *   bla bla bla bla ...
> > ->bla bla bla bla ...
> >
> > then the list is terminated after the first line, so I would get
> > a number of lists instead of one list with many items (each with
> > several paragraphs).
> >
> >                          jem
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> The above syntax is almost right.
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> http://pmwiki.com/wiki/Test/LongListItems
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> Don't use use line breaks of any sort within each paragraph. Normally
> the program ignores a single line break, but not within a list item.
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> Do not use a space as the first character; it is the code for
> monospace.
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> Cheers!
>
> Sandy
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> The only problem with that suggestion is that with a numbered list, the
> numbering doesn't increment.  I would recommend using the \\ linebreak
> notation between paragraphs within each list item.
>

You just have to take care:
# to have an empty line following your item's first paragraph (as there)

  and to indent the next paragraph as the previous does.

Dom