Not rendering line breaks to separate lists

[justinwalsh]

Not rendering line breaks to separate lists

[justinwalsh]

Just for curiosity, if you were to double line break between them does it fix the issue? We have had some other issues with how our markdown parser handles single vs double line breaks.

[geebru]

I tried doubling the line break and tripling it with no luck. The only thing I've had success with is putting a paragraph or line break between. Seems to be an issue with reading a line break between 2 lists - seems to just read the next list item and assumes it's in the same list.

[justinwalsh]

We are using an existing PHP library for parsing Markdown and it supports GFM, so this is most likely a bug in the parser. I am still looking into that. As far as how we expect it to work, this is right from GitHub's guide on using their version of MD:

The biggest difference that GFM introduces is in the handling of linebreaks. With SM you can hard wrap paragraphs of text and they will be combined into a single paragraph. We find this to be the cause of a huge number of unintentional formatting errors. GFM treats newlines in paragraph-like content as real line breaks, which is probably what you intended.

I'm not sure if there is another decent php lib for parsing MD out there, I found the one we are using now a while ago.

[geebru]

A co-worker did find that the library you're currently using is out of date, in that there have been newer versions since this project was 'released' (the latest version is from April 2013; the currently used library is from October 2009).

Perhaps the new version fixes some of these lingering parser issues?

[TheSisb]

Probably fix here: #160

[Gautham]

Resolved with Parsedown so closed :)