Talk.List Markup Alternatives

Multiline list items#

See also Multiline List Items.

-- YvesPiguet, 2007-Feb-28

I should note that removing ones signature from the content of the page will allow others to edit and improve that content. Axel, do you want your contribution here to remain signed?

-- Radomir Dopieralski, 2007-Mar-02

I added descriptions for single "features" of a list markup -- as practically any combination of these would work, listing separate combination seems to have little sense.

Looking at the more exotic ways of indicating nesting gave me an idea: Why not only have markup defined for single-level lists, and then use the generic markup for indented text to make them nested? Assuming we use ":" for indentation, it would look like this:

Some normal text
:Some indented text
* A list
:* a sublist
::* a subsublist
::indented text at the level of the sublist
normal text

-- RadomirDopieralski, 2007-Mar-04

I agree that it somehow makes sense to use the indenting markup for lists also. But it doesn't look very nice, and it's not intuitive. Both bulleted lists and hyphened lists just look like lists and are used that way in plain text already. On the other hand it seems there is no list markup that fulfills all our needs of GoodPractices.

-- SteffenSchramm, 2007-Mar-04

Usually things that make sense *are* intuitive ;) I'd rather say that it's not widespread, popular, widely known, traditional -- which is kind of related to intuition, of course.

But if we had the basic two/three levels handled with asterisks and hyphens (plus numbered lists), the additional nesting levels could be left in additions, together with the indentation markup. Jus a loose idea, I'm not advocating it.

-- RadomirDopieralski, 2007-Mar-04