[Mediawiki-l] Preformatted text within lists?

I entered this into bugzilla, but I'm posting it here in the hope that someone can suggest a workaround. Thanks, David Currently, list items are terminated by a newline. I'd like that rule to be modified so that list items are terminated when the next line begins with some sort of list specifier, or when the next line is empty (or perhaps only whitespace). Lines that begin without list specifiers should be treated as separate paragraphs. The current rule makes it very troublesome to create list items with multiple paragraphs, and as far as I can tell, there is no way to embed preformatted text in a list item. For example: # This is the first list item, first paragraph This is the first list item, second paragraph Here is some preformatted text with the first list item Here is the rest of the preformatted text # This is the second list item (numbered as 2) With the current rule, the above is rendered as a single item list, then a plain text paragraph, then a preformatted text paragraph, then a second single item list whose number starts with 1. This makes it difficult to create sophisticated lists. Under my proposed change, the above would be rendered instead as a single list, where the first item contains two plain text paragraphs and one preformatted text paragraph. This change is mostly compatible with current Wiki pages, since most authors would normally place an empty line after their list before starting non-list text. One could justify the use of a single newline to start a new paragraph instead of an empty line because one is in a list context. (i.e. the whole list is a single paragraph.) By the way, as a workaround I'm manually numbering my paragraphs: 1. This is the first list item, first paragraph This is the first list item, second paragraph Here is some preformatted text with the first list item Here is the rest of the preformatted text 2. This is the second list item (numbered as 2) Please let me know if you have a better workaround. _____________________________________________________________________ Dr. David Coppit Assistant Professor coppit(a)cs.wm.edu Department of Computer Science http://www.cs.wm.edu/~coppit/ The College of William and Mary