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diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt index 596ba73f2..7e0bdfcdd 100644 --- a/MANUAL.txt +++ b/MANUAL.txt @@ -2078,12 +2078,12 @@ But Markdown also allows a "lazy" format: list item. * and my second. -### The four-space rule ### +### Block content in list items ### A list item may contain multiple paragraphs and other block-level content. However, subsequent paragraphs must be preceded by a blank line -and indented four spaces or a tab. The list will look better if the first -paragraph is aligned with the rest: +and indented to line up with the first non-space content after +the list marker. * First paragraph. @@ -2094,19 +2094,29 @@ paragraph is aligned with the rest: { code } +Exception: if the list marker is followed by an indented code +block, which must begin 5 spaces after the list marker, then +subsequent paragraphs must begin two columns after the last +character of the list marker: + + * code + + continuation paragraph + List items may include other lists. In this case the preceding blank -line is optional. The nested list must be indented four spaces or -one tab: +line is optional. The nested list must be indented to line up with +the first non-space character after the list marker of the +containing list item. * fruits - + apples - - macintosh - - red delicious - + pears - + peaches + + apples + - macintosh + - red delicious + + pears + + peaches * vegetables - + broccoli - + chard + + broccoli + + chard As noted above, Markdown allows you to write list items "lazily," instead of indenting continuation lines. However, if there are multiple paragraphs or @@ -2121,21 +2131,6 @@ other blocks in a list item, the first line of each must be indented. Second paragraph of second list item. -**Note:** Although the four-space rule for continuation paragraphs -comes from the official [Markdown syntax guide], the reference implementation, -`Markdown.pl`, does not follow it. So pandoc will give different results than -`Markdown.pl` when authors have indented continuation paragraphs fewer than -four spaces. - -The [Markdown syntax guide] is not explicit whether the four-space -rule applies to *all* block-level content in a list item; it only -mentions paragraphs and code blocks. But it implies that the rule -applies to all block-level content (including nested lists), and -pandoc interprets it that way. - - [Markdown syntax guide]: - http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list - ### Ordered lists ### Ordered lists work just like bulleted lists, except that the items @@ -3606,6 +3601,12 @@ implied by pandoc's default `all_symbols_escapable`. Allow a list to occur right after a paragraph, with no intervening blank space. +#### Extension: `four_space_rule` #### + +Selects the pandoc <= 2.0 behavior for parsing lists, so that +four spaces indent are needed for list item continuation +paragraphs. + #### Extension: `spaced_reference_links` #### Allow whitespace between the two components of a reference link, |