<p> nesting is inconsistent

[mathisonian]

Issue by rreusser
Saturday May 20, 2017 at 19:45 GMT
Originally opened as idyll-lang/idyll-compiler#20

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p tag nesting is a little inconsistent, which makes it challenging to manage formatting. For example,

[li]test[/li] --> <li>test</li>

whereas:

[li]**test**[/li] --> <li><p><strong>test</strong></p></li>

Perhaps it would be better if everything were nested in a p tag when not already. I suspect this is how markdown does it, though it would be worth checking.

[mathisonian]

Comment by rreusser
Thursday May 25, 2017 at 22:19 GMT

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Actually, checking over what github's markdown renderer does by inspecting this box, it seems the default is not to wrap in a p tag in most cases. A few sanity checks confirm that things basically make pretty good sense:

• Test ⟶ <p>Test</p>
• <p>Test</p> ⟶ <p>Test</p>
• **Test** ⟶ <p><strong>Test</strong></p>
• # **Test** ⟶ <h1><strong>Test</strong></h1>
• Adding a line break between any one of the items of a list triggers wrapping each <li>'s content in a p tag. Otherwise they're bare.

[mathisonian]

Comment by mathisonian
Friday May 26, 2017 at 07:41 GMT

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Is this issue just for nesting <p>s inside of a list, or is it more general?

The updates I pushed to support nesting markdown syntax inside of the list syntax should help clean this up a little bit.

[mathisonian]

Comment by rreusser
Saturday May 27, 2017 at 17:25 GMT

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Found one more case that's a bit problematic:

[span][span]test[/span][/span] is rendered as <p><span><p><span>test</span></p></span></p> so that you can't currently nested components inline.