on the philosophical aspects of a specification

[david parsons]

In article <47CEBB51.6010003 at idirect.ca>,
Seumas Mac Uilleachan  <markdown-discuss at six.pairlist.net> wrote:

> Currently (which is strange) 

>the first line in my example has three spaces and is a first level list. 

>The next line has only two but becomes a **second level** list.


   I believe that the markdown you're using is being overly aggressive
   when doing the prefix matching for "next item in list", and it's only
   matching if the indent is exactly the indent of the current list item.
   And 2 != 3.    That's *really* bizarre.

   On the bright side, that sort of musical indentation is pretty close
   to unreadable, so the bizarre reformatting of the list is a good way
   to encourage cleanup of the source text.


   -david parsons