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In my writing, I tend to format lists of items: The school has a vegetable garden in which the children grow cabbages, onions, potatoes, and carrots during their free time. as actual vertical...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T08:14:37Z (over 4 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Witiko
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2019-12-08T08:14:37Z (over 4 years ago)
In my writing, I tend to format lists of items: > The school has a vegetable garden in which the children grow cabbages, onions, potatoes, and carrots during their free time. as actual vertical lists: > The school has a vegetable garden in which the children grow > > - cabbages, > - onions, > - potatoes, and > - carrots > > during their free time. However, major document markup languages, such as HTML and Markdown, do not allow vertical content in paragraphs [[1](https://stackoverflow.com/a/5681796/657401)], i.e. the above text is actually internally represented as two separate paragraphs with a list in between. This, in turn, makes it difficult to style a web page to e.g. indent the first line of a paragraph without somehow extending the markup. Is this a deficiency in HTML and Markdown, or is the above use of lists rare / generally discouraged?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2018-03-08T23:10:57Z (about 6 years ago)
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