List weirdness

[Andy Fragen]

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Yes, it is closer to what I want but it doesn't indent the subs.

-- 
Andy Fragen

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004, Michel Fortin said:

>
>The code you wrote generate completely invalid html markup, so it's 
>clearly a bug. But I think that to achieve what you want, you should 
>write this:
>
>	1. line1
>	2. line2
>	    a. sub1
>	    b. sub2
>	3. line3
>
>The blockquote is unnecessary for indentation (and it is also bad 
>semantics). Just indent the following lines with spaces or a tab and 
>they will be put inside of the second list item. Do not forget to put 
>two spaces at the end of the lines "line2" and "sub1" if you want 
>Markdown to insert a line break. That way, you should now have the 
>following output:
>
>	<ol>
>	<li>line1</li>
>	<li>line2 <br />
>	a. sub1 <br />
>	b. sub2</li>
>	<li>line3</li>
>	</ol>
>
>Now I think that's more like what you want.
>
>Michel Fortin
>michel.fortin at michelf.com
>http://www.michelf.com/
>
>Le 24 mars 2004, à 18:36, Andy Fragen a écrit :
>
>> *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) 
>> Pro*
>> I've recently come across something that may be my misunderstanding or 
>> a
>> bug. ??
>>
>> In creating a numbered list I wanted secondary elements that were alpha
>> labelled. As I currently understand it this isn't in Markdown yet. So I
>> wrote it out as an alpha list and blockquoted it. The problem came in a
>> numbered item after the blockquote became an alpha element. There are 
>> <br
>> /> tags after the subs.
>>
>> 1. line1
>> 2. line2
>>> a. sub1
>>> b. sub2
>> 3. line3
>>
>> Translates to
>>
>> <p><ol>
>> <li>line1</li>
>> <li>line2</p>
>>
>> <blockquote>
>> 	<p>a. sub1 <br />
>> 	b. sub2  </li>
>> 	<li>line3</li>
>> 	</ol></p>
>> </blockquote>
>>
>> Shouldn't the blockquote have ended prior to the last list item? I do
>> understand the closing </li> tag around all of line2 and the subs, if 
>> the
>> subs would be wrapped in further <li></li> pairs. BTW, it seems to work
>> as expected if I put returns around the blockquoted element.
>>
>> Is this a bug?
>>
>> -- 
>> Andy Fragen
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