Lists
A paragraph indented from the left margin (by either spaces or tabs, or both),
and starting with a * , - , + or
o character followed by whitespace, will be converted into a list
item (<li> tag).
The same goes for indented paragraphs that start with the string
1. , followed by whitespace. However the default list tag in this
case will be an <ol>...</ol> list. Any positive integer
followed immediately by a full stop and a space will do the trick. (BTW: I
used to use # to do this, but I preferred the WikiIdea, it
looks better.)
(Compatibility note: previous versions of EtText required that the
<ul> or <ol> tags be written manually. This is no
longer the case, they will be added automatically.)
Some text editors (such as vim) will reformat list items automatically,
assuming that you want the text to line up with the start of the text, instead
of the bullet-point character, on the previous line, like so:
- this is a list item. We should make sure that
blah blah etc. etc.
This is pretty handy, so using a - as the list bullet point character is
recommended.
Indented paragraphs that start with term: tab rest
of paragraph will be converted into definition lists (this is another
StolenFromWikiIdea). As a result, this:
Foo: Blah blah blah etc.
Will look like this:
-
Foo
-
Blah blah blah etc.
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