Getting around div tags

[Chris Purcell]

That relies on users counting whitespace, which is a tad awkward.

Alternatively, you could insist that only if text between tags is 
indented will it be treated as raw HTML:

<div class="mainarticle">
     This is <em>really</em> not worth publishing.
</div>

<div class="sidebar">
**Did you know?** President Lincoln had a beard.
</div>

Or that the first tag of inline HTML cannot be followed by a blank line 
(since whitespace is irrelevant in HTML anyway):

<div class="mainarticle">
This is <em>really</em> not worth publishing.
</div>

<div class="sidebar">

**Did you know?** President Lincoln had a beard.

</div>

Cheers,
Chris Purcell

> What about if tags at column 1 don't process their contents and tags 
> at column 4 are code blocks (as they are now), but any tags in between 
> aren't wrapped with <p>s but get their contents processed. So the 
> problem would be solved by writing:
>
>   <div class="mainarticle">
> This is some _cool_ text.
>   </div>
>
>   <div class="sidebar">
> **Did you know?** President Lincoln had a beard.
>   </div>