[pmwiki-users] custom markups and like breaks

[John Rankin]

How should a local end-of-line markup handle line breaks?

I have an experimental local markup where

* an item::its continuation

:a term:its definition::and its continuation

produce respectively

<ul><li><p>an item</p><p>its continuation</p></li></ul>

<dl><dt>a term</dt><dd>its definition></dd><dd>and its continuation</dd></dl>

This seems to be working. Local css rules adjust the 
inter-paragraph space. But it seems more natural to write

* an item::
its continuation

:a term:its definition::
and its continuation

I can't figure out how to make this work.

It ought to be 'obvious when you know how'. Any suggestions?

Ideally I would require a return after the continuation character(s)
and possibly use something other than ::

OTOH, /not/ having a return avoids having to deal with

* an item::
* now what do we do?

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JR
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John Rankin