On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Philip Tzou &lt;philip.npc(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Use explicit <dl>, <dd>, and <dt>. All the list wikimarkup only works for a single line: as soon as you have a line break, it ends the list item. If you want to have multiple lines of wikitext that are part of the same item, you have to use HTML instead.

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Philip Tzou &lt;philip.npc(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: <source> is a magic tag that's interpreted during parsing and converted to HTML. Tidy only sees the resulting HTML, and that only contains a <pre> with some inline markup inside it, nothing that would auto-close a <dd> tag. Per HTML5, the only things that will auto-close <dd> are <dd> and <dt>, plus closing tags for parents of the <dd>. (If you're interested in the details, you can read the standard here, although be warned it's rather dense: <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tokenization.html#tree-construction> The most recent versions of all browsers follow the standard for HTML parsing pretty exactly, although in the case of IE it's only in IE10PP2, and for Opera only private dev builds. Tidy doesn't follow the standard, though, and might have funny ideas about what's okay to let through.)