Re: Formatting lists in descriptions

[Alex Kost]

Ludovic Courtès (2015-07-15 17:28 +0300) wrote:

> "Cook, Malcolm" <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Hi - I'm late to this discussion - not sure all the issues on the table - 
>> but how about deferring to markdown in such cases.
>
> We could use a more advanced format.  In that case I would prefer sexps
> (but they would not play well with i18n), or, if we use a text DSL,
> Org-mode (which is potentially less expressive than arbitrary sexps.)
>
> It’s not a choice that can be made lightly because it will impact
> translators and we must make sure we can provide UIs that honor markup
> appropriately.
>
> I’m not completely sure it’s necessary though.  Thoughts?

In my opinion it's not necessary.  Descriptions are not so big all in
all.  I just wanted to standardize how lists, used in some descriptions,
look like.  I also prefer "  •" to denote a list item.

-- 
Alex