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authorAidan Woods <aidantwoods@gmail.com>2017-04-09 19:40:55 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-04-09 19:40:55 +0100
commitb3176b7bbe97971fb33d3dd79650d97e671c3561 (patch)
treeb985c94e0521183975f81a9d318ea8e298c7da8d
parent9dd1c4645cfa61dd3c77dbe67b16adf8c3306309 (diff)
Clarify precedence of thematic break
There already exists the statement: "When both a thematic break and a list item are possible interpretations of a line, the thematic break takes precedence". This adjustment ensures that this precedence is achieved by the list item definition.
-rw-r--r--spec.txt13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/spec.txt b/spec.txt
index e556200..2259a28 100644
--- a/spec.txt
+++ b/spec.txt
@@ -3639,11 +3639,14 @@ The following rules define [list items]:
If the list item is ordered, then it is also assigned a start
number, based on the ordered list marker.
- Exceptions: When the first list item in a [list] interrupts
- a paragraph---that is, when it starts on a line that would
- otherwise count as [paragraph continuation text]---then (a)
- the lines *Ls* must not begin with a blank line, and (b) if
- the list item is ordered, the start number must be 1.
+ Exceptions:
+ 1. When the first list item in a [list] interrupts
+ a paragraph---that is, when it starts on a line that would
+ otherwise count as [paragraph continuation text]---then (a)
+ the lines *Ls* must not begin with a blank line, and (b) if
+ the list item is ordered, the start number must be 1.
+ 2. If any line is a [thematic break][thematic breaks] then
+ that line is not a list item.
For example, let *Ls* be the lines