From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:14:37 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: forwarded
X-Git-Tag: 3.20110225~126
X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/992518e5a1535f8c0067cdea51bba7bf714a7eaf?ds=sidebyside;hp=6a1a041b4f01f5f6f46de3e15c7fdac6543e62d6

forwarded
---

diff --git a/doc/bugs/enumerations_of_dates_not_formatted_correctly.mdwn b/doc/bugs/enumerations_of_dates_not_formatted_correctly.mdwn
index f9ebf8c13..fe9c5d480 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/enumerations_of_dates_not_formatted_correctly.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/enumerations_of_dates_not_formatted_correctly.mdwn
@@ -29,3 +29,15 @@ Testcase:
 > * 27\. March
 >
 > or by writing "1st January" and so on. --[[smcv]]
+
+>> I think that this is a bug in Text::Markdown (and probably other
+>> versions of markdown). The [markdown spec)(http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.text),
+>> though unmaintained and bitrotted into near illegibility, seems to say
+>> that list items can only be preceeded by whitespace:
+>> 
+>>> "List markers typically start at the left margin, but may be indented by
+>>> up to three spaces."
+>> 
+>> So "* * * 1. 2. 3." should not be parsed as a deeply nested list.
+>> 
+>> Forwarded to upsteam RT. [[done]] --[[Joey]]