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Opened Aug 22, 2019 by John Burak@jvimes
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Markdown loose lists look wrong

Summary

In markdown loose lists, the spacing is bad. Sub sections appear closer to the next section than their parent.

For example, this markdown:

1. Installation

    1. Install step 1
    1. Install step 2
    1. Install step 3

2. Configuration

    1. Config step 1
    1. Config step 2
    1. Config step 3

3. Start up

Produces the following:

  • This is what CommonMark produces, but it's so wrong from the user's point of view. I expect CommonMark gets criticism for this.

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Users want something more like:

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Reference: gitlab-org/gitlab#31164