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authorJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2016-07-13 12:00:33 -0700
committerJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2016-07-13 12:00:33 -0700
commit005fc58fa001d463f86c33eafe88d78cdf113dde (patch)
treebf93f8d267f7ea79ba5e51d4616acf3a4d411cf0 /spec.txt
parent02ae86a2c15bc469004d86a68760014dfaf94e33 (diff)
Moved restriction on paragraph-interrupting lists to list item spec
instead of list marker spec.
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@@ -3621,12 +3621,7 @@ An [ordered list marker](@)
is a sequence of 1--9 arabic digits (`0-9`), followed by either a
`.` character or a `)` character. (The reason for the length
limit is that with 10 digits we start seeing integer overflows
-in some browsers.) Exception: In cases where ordered list
-markers interrupt paragraphs---that is, when they occur on a
-line that would otherwise count as [paragraph continuation
-text]---list markers must be followed by some content other than
-spaces before the end of the line, and for ordered list markers,
-only `1.` and `1)` are allowed.
+in some browsers.)
The following rules define [list items]:
@@ -3641,6 +3636,12 @@ 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 list item 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.
+
For example, let *Ls* be the lines
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