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Bullets - illogical formatting marks (line breaks)

Hyrum Graff·7/29/2014, 6:13:56 PM·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

Daen7/29/2014, 7:02:21 PM4 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.

RiotMontag7/31/2014, 3:16:08 PM2 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

Footnotes

  1. 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. ↩