spaces and newlines before list markers (was: evolving the spec)

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall]

Sounds like there are quite a few people who write intuitively by
placing a space or two before a list marker.  Next question: what if
we only allowed a fixed number of whitespaces before a list marker?
For example, what if the spec said 0-1 whitespace characters before a
list marker?

Is that too rigid?

This would accommodate those of us that write with a space before a
list marker, but wouldn't capture my edge case (with the "2008."
indented three spaces on a newline). best, Joe

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
UC Berkeley School of Information
http://josephhall.org/