seemingly no good way to end bulleted list and start code block

[Michel Fortin]

Le 2007-10-06 à 19:37, Matt Kraai a écrit :


> Howdy,

>

> The following bug report was sent to the Debian BTS.  Is there a way

> to have a code block immediately follow an unordered list?


As Aristotle pointed out, there's a workaround: use an HTML comment,  
like that:

     * bla
     * bla

     <!-- comment -->

         this is a code block.

It's not optimal, but the only solution currently.

Note that creating a second paragraph in the list item is correct  
behaviour, not a bug. That you can't write a code block immediately  
following a list is unfortunate, but since it would be done using the  
exact same characters as for adding a paragraph to a list item, it's  
a design issue we can't really solve without changing some part of  
the syntax.

  - - -

This issue has been raised many times, and I've been personally biten  
by it too. I also noticed that with PHP Markdown Extra, many new  
features (footnotes, definition lists) behave like list items and  
can't be immediately followed by an indented code block.

So I'm seriously thinking about adding a second (unindented) code  
block syntax to PHP Markdown Extra that would avoid this issue  
entirely. Something like this:

     Regular paragraph

     ~~~
     Code block
     ~~~

Of course, unless John adopts it for Markdown, it'll only benefit  
users of PHP Markdown Extra.


Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
http://michelf.com/