Indented bullets in markdown lose indentation in mediawiki #2367
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You have to indent each additional sublevel by 4 extra spaces. Then it works: It will produce: See also the docu: http://pandoc.org/README.html#the-four-space-rule |
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Thanks, that's helpful. It would be better, though, if Pandoc also recognized the two-space format, since that's how most markdown implementations work. |
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Actually, there is a lot of variation among markdown implementations in this regard. Many of the implementations that sometimes allow a two-space indent don't do so consistently: More inconsistency with one-space indents: Moreover, if you allow < 4 space indent, but retain Gruber's rule that indented code under a list item must be indented 8 spaces, you get an ugly situation. In my view, the only implementations with really coherent rules for indented lists are those that adopt the 4-space rule, like pandoc, and those that conform to the CommonMark spec, which allows two-space indentation and alters Gruber's rule about indented code under list items in a way that ensures backwards compatibility with 4-space-rule implementations. |
Closes #3511. Previously pandoc used the four-space rule: continuation paragraphs, sublists, and other block level content had to be indented 4 spaces. Now the indentation required is determined by the first line of the list item: to be included in the list item, blocks must be indented to the level of the first non-space content after the list marker. Exception: if are 5 or more spaces after the list marker, then the content is interpreted as an indented code block, and continuation paragraphs must be indented two spaces beyond the end of the list marker. See the CommonMark spec for more details and examples. Documents that adhere to the four-space rule should, in most cases, be parsed the same way by the new rules. Here are some examples of texts that will be parsed differently: - a - b will be parsed as a list item with a sublist; under the four-space rule, it would be a list with two items. - a code Here we have an indented code block under the list item, even though it is only indented six spaces from the margin, because it is four spaces past the point where a continuation paragraph could begin. With the four-space rule, this would be a regular paragraph rather than a code block. - a code Here the code block will start with two spaces, whereas under the four-space rule, it would start with `code`. With the four-space rule, indented code under a list item always must be indented eight spaces from the margin, while the new rules require only that it be indented four spaces from the beginning of the first non-space text after the list marker (here, `a`). This change was motivated by a slew of bug reports from people who expected lists to work differently (#3125, #2367, #2575, #2210, #1990, #1137, #744, #172, #137, #128) and by the growing prevalance of CommonMark (now used by GitHub, for example). Users who want to use the old rules can select the `four_space_rule` extension. * Added `four_space_rule` extension. * Added `Ext_four_space_rule` to `Extensions`. * `Parsing` now exports `gobbleAtMostSpaces`, and the type of `gobbleSpaces` has been changed so that a `ReaderOptions` parameter is not needed.
When converting from markdown to mediawiki, this input:
produces this output:
The indentation / sub-item hierarchy is lost in the conversion. The actual corresponding mediawiki syntax would be either of these:
or
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