Docs: add extension to make nested lists work #1800
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Useful for #1762
This PR adds the
mdx_truly_sane_lists
extension to our Mkdocs configuration, which makes it so indenting a list item with 2 spaces in Markdown will make a nested list.Without the extension, Mkdocs's default is to expect 4 spaces; this behavior is due to Mkdocs's usage of Python-Markdown. Prettier, our configured formatter, re-formats 4-space indents into 2-space indents.
So in our current docs site, we have lists like:
With this extension added, they are nested: