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

[John MacFarlane]

I agree with all this. Pandoc's extended markdown syntax supports both
these features (with some heuristics to avoid capturing initials in
names).  http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#lists

John


> The HTML spec authors have admitted that they believe this particular

> change was a mistake on their behalf.

>

> All browsers support the value attribute on <ol> <li>s, and there are

> numerous real world use-cases for allowing continuations of ordered

> lists.

>

> I for one, would like to see markdown support...

>

> 1. ordered 2. lists

>

> that interrupt and then continue

>

> 3. like 4. this

>

>

> Basic support for implied <ol type=""> attributes would also be

> nice...

>

> A. like B. this C. where the third item refers to list-item "A" above

> (which becomes non-sensial if the browser renders the list as 1. 2.

> 3...)

>

> or

>

> i. like ii. this iii. as well

>

>

> ...although I realise that over-zealous auto-detection algorithms

> would cause problems with sencences/lines starting with an abbrivated

> proper name like this:

>

> A. Lincoln was an US president, and Lyndon B. Johnson was another.

>

>

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