[pmwiki-users] numbered list questions

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:20:26AM -0800, Carl Boe wrote:
> 
> I think it would be beneficial to have a some way to block-ify text 
> blocks in such situation, and protect the block from the <li> element 
> ending prematurely.  
> [...]
> It is not too hard to imagine ordered and unordered lists which are 
> quite lengthy and contain several paragraphs, tables, displayed 
> equations, etc., 

I agree with the above; however, we haven't found a list markup
that accomplishes this and is universal enough to support other
views of how it should work (and I haven't wanted to impose a particular
view on others).  The prime candidate at the moment is to allow authors
to use leading spaces to indicate that text should be part of a 
preceding list item or block-level element:

        # list level 1, item 1
        # list level 1, item 2.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, 
          consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec metus magna, 
          lobortis nec, auctor sit amet, feugiat id, augue. 

          This text is still part of list level 1, item 2,
          because its lines are indented with spaces to the
          same column as the above.

        # list level 1, item 3

This could cause some confusion with preformatted text.  Even so,
I'm working on finding a way to integrate this as an extension, if
not part of the core.

Pm