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

[Aaron Janse]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2020, at 3:36 PM, Julien Blanchard wrote:
> 
> > Le 19 janv. 2020 à 00:22, solderpunk <solderpunk at sdf.org> a écrit :
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Do we really need ordered lists? I’m not sure the what the use case is.

Some use cases:

1. Instructions with step numbers. Yes, references to steps may need to be
   changed if items are items, but that's less work than replacing both
   references and the bullet markers themselves.
2. Listing things (e.g. problems), then referring to them by number ("but
   this once again causes problem #1")
3. "There are X ways to do this... <ordered list>"

I don't know what to do about spaces between ordered lists. If there's text
between items, I think manually-numbered sections should be used instead.

But if it's only newlines between items, I don't see why the count should be
restarted.

Cheers!