Paragraphs in nested lists not handled correctly

[ralismark]

Running lowdown -sT man --nroff-nolinks -M sections=1 -o foo.1 with the following markdown input:

- list

  with paragraph

  - inner list

    inner para

produces a manpage that looks like this, with incorrect indenting for the paragraph in the inner list:

       • list

         with paragraph

         • inner list

         inner para

To make it look correct, the resulting troff file needs this change:

 .\" -*- mode: troff; coding: utf-8 -*-
 .TH "Untitled article" "7" ""
 .IP "\(bu" 2
 list
 .IP
 with paragraph
 .RS
 .IP "\(bu" 2
 inner list
-.RE
 .IP
 inner para
+.RE

[kristapsdz]

This actually looks to be a bug within the parser, not the output! Adding an extra space in front of "inner para" will trigger the correct behaviour. An interesting bug indeed... I'll have a fix when I track down the culprit. Thank you!

[kristapsdz]

Ok, it turns out that this isn't an error. To quote the syntax guide:

List items may consist of multiple paragraphs. Each subsequent paragraph in a list item must be indented by either 4 spaces or one tab

The sample you've given doesn't do that. By using four spaces, this is just fine. I'm closing this, but to be honest, I don't like it... markdown should handle any number of spaces.