Text reflow woes (or: I want bullets back!)y

[solderpunk]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 11:13:50PM +0000, James Tomasino wrote:
 
> What constitutes the end of an ordered list? Unordered lists are "dumb"
> in that they just display their appropriate depth no matter what, but
> the ordered lists need to keep track of that state. Does a non-list line
> break the list? What about empty lines?
> 
> + is this list
> 
> + still counting
> 
> + up to 3?

Argh, excellent question.  It seems like something vaguely like the
notion of a block has crept in!

This is a timely question, too.  I'm goofing around trying to implement
some of these new ideas in AV-98 (and so far I'm very pleased with the
results - # headers are made bold with ANSI escape codes, and unordered
lists get nice bullets and nice spacing, looks great!) and had to deal
with exactly this.  For testing I just decided that anything other than
an ordered list line breaks a list and resets the counter.  I'm open to
other ideas but I worry that anything other than this is liable to be
too complicated.

Cheers,
Solderpunk