Evan Prodromou wrote:

Is there a good reason this:

---8<--- #Item 1

#Item 2

#Item 3 ---8<---

...should render to this:

---8<---

<p><ol><li>Item 1</li></ol></p> <p><ol><li>Item 2</li></ol></p> <p><ol><li>Item 3</li></ol></p> ---8<---

...instead of this:

---8<---

<ol> <li>Item 1</li> <li>Item 2</li> <li>Item 3</li> </ol> ---8<---

? If I file an RFE to do this, am I dumb?

Shouldn't it do this:

---8<--- <ol><li>Item 1</li></ol> <ol><li>Item 2</li></ol> <ol><li>Item 3</li></ol> ---8<---

? On the one hand, the blank lines imply that the writer intended the items to appear in different lists, like your first version; but on the other hand, HTML will do this with the separate <ol> tags, without need for any <p> tags, as in your second version.

Although I doubt that anybody would really want to write this example, the analogous example with <ul> is reasonably common.

-- Toby