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man page: lists not formatted properly #20558
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@dstftw have you looked at the man page? |
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In fact, you can also look at the README.txt that is auto-generated with pandoc:
This is with pandoc 2.2.1 btw. |
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Test case:
Do you get a different result with pandoc? |
Lists have to be separated from the previous paragraph by a blank line in certain variants of Markdown, otherwise they are not interpreted as lists. This change ensures that that the youtube-dl.1 man page, which is generated from README.md with the help of pandoc, is formatted correctly.
Some lists in the man page are not shown as lists but as one long paragraph, e.g.
"You can also use special names to select particular edge case formats: - best: Select the best quality format represented by a single file with video and audio. - worst: Select the"
I'll propose a PR.