Bullets - illogical formatting marks (line breaks)

Hyrum Graff·Jul 29, 2014·4 votes·2,194 views

There are cool options relating to bullets
- You can indent them!
You can put a space between lines,
Or
not!

However, the logic of where these paragraph breaks happen, isn't particularly clear. Essentially, I think the final product should mimic what the post looks like before you apply formatting. -> I'd like the same change you made to paragraph breaks with normal text: A single 'return' makes a new line.

Two returns makes a new paragraph.

I shouldn't have to put 3 returns after "You can put a space between lines," in order to make "or" and "not" appear one under the other.

Cheers, Hyrum Graff

9 Comments

DaenJul 29, 20144 votes

For anyone confused with what this post is saying:

In order to format a set of bullets
Like
This

It has to look like the following (replacing bullets with tilde):

~ In order to format a set of bullets [enter: new line] [enter: spacing] [enter: ???] ~ Like ~ This

Obviously this is a bit unnecessary, as it should logically look like this:

~ In order to format a set of bullets [enter: new line] [enter: spacing] ~ Like ~ This

Hope that clarifies.

Hyrum GraffJul 29, 20141 votes

This is correct, thanks!

RiotMontagJul 31, 20142 votes

Let me see if I understand. In the situation you're describing, you have two lists that you want to separate with a double newline to indicate that they're different lists (let's call it first list, second list). Logically, you should be able to write something like this¹:

- First list, first item - First list, second item

- Second list, first item - Second list, second item

But the end result looks weird:

http://i.imgur.com/5Rd6btR.png

You'd rather it look like the source: two lists, separated by a small space, or something like this:

http://i.imgur.com/qlilW00.png

Is that right?

Edit: Edited for clarity. Even I got confused by first and second lists. XD

Minor footnote, I made the Markdown formatting visible by using an escape character \ in front of the bullet character (-). We don't have support for Markdown's version of <code> or <pre> just yet. ↩

Hyrum GraffJul 31, 20142 votes

Yes, that's correct. Thanks for footnote! You learn something new every day :D

I like to make list with sub-bullets, and something like this:

Point one | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit
elaboration one | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit
Point two | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit
elaboration two | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit

looks a lot nicer than

Point one | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit
elaboration one | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit
Point two | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit
elaboration two | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit

In my opinion, at least.

RiotMontagJul 31, 20143 votes

P.S. I'm a big fan of your work, Colonel. ;)

Hyrum GraffAug 1, 20141 votes

I did what was necessary.

P.S. Also a fan of yours ;)

P.P.S. You've just opened up a huge can of worms :P I can (and have) talk(ed) about Ender's Game for hours.

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DaenJul 31, 20141 votes

That sounds about right, yes.

In order to get it to look like the picture you linked, it needs to be separated with a triple newline rather than a double newline.

RiotMontagJul 31, 20142 votes

I cheated -- I edited the HTML in Web Inspector. I think the problem is that the Markdown engine is inserting a <p> tag inside the second list, which adds an extra margin at the bottom, which creates the weird extra space between the second list's items. Looks like a potential bug to me. Hopefully Krylhos will see and magic it away with his wizardry!

DaenJul 31, 20142 votes

Psh. Cheater. No fair!