Constistent output of lists in html output

[m-wim]

As QOwnNotes uses the hoedown library the issue pbek/QOwnNotes#799 might be here on the right place

Expected behaviour

If list items are separated by one or more blank lines the html output should show two separated lists (or perhaps only one)

* A
* B
* C

* D
* E
* F

should become

• A
• B
• C

• D
• E
• F

or

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F

Actual behaviour

Somehow a <p> element is inserted into the <li> elements C D E F, so it looks like

• A
• B

• C

• D

• E

• F

[uranusjr]

Well, the Markdown spec says when there’re linebreaks in a list item, the list should contain items like <li><p>...</p></li>, so the correct output should be

<ul>
 <li><p>A</p></li>
 <li><p>B</p></li>
 <li><p>C</p></li>
 <li><p>D</p></li>
 <li><p>E</p></li>
 <li><p>F</p></li>
</ul>

Hoedown does this because it renders output in one pass, instead of creating AST first and then render. This is much efficient, but also means when it sees the linebreak in the C line, it can’t go back and fix the previous items, resulting the current output. This is not fixable unless you rewrite the how thing, which is exactly what the develop branch is doing… but that is stalled.

As things currently stand, the only choices you have are either to accept this behaviour, or switch to another library.