On Sep 25, 2008, at 5:07 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
  Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
  On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Vincent Massol
 <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Guillaume was surprised (and rightly so) that we use this format for
> nested lists:
>
> 111*.
>
> He was expecting 111.* 
 How come?
 > I remember I had the same remark the first
time I saw this a long
> time
> ago.
>
> Thus (if we agree) we have 2 solutions:
>
> Solution 1:
> =========
>
> 111.* 
 -0.5, for me at least it is not intuitive at all.
 > Solution 2:
> ========
>
> 1.1.1.* 
 +0.25
 A bit too long.
 I'm in favor of this solution since it follows the usual pattern
 for lists :
 *
 **
 1.
 1.1.
 
 We could also have a simple dotless 1, like:
 1 list item
 1* subitem
 1* subitem
 1*1 numbered subitem
 1*1 numbered subitem
 Of course this means that any non-list 1 at the start of the row
 should
 be escaped. Also, it is confusing with the old header syntax. 
Yes that's the reason I didn't list it.
  If the dot's placement is not clear enough, we
could use ), like:
 1) item
 1*) subitemitem
 111) etc 
This sounds too different from other syntaxes ( 
http://www
.wikimatrix.org/syntax.php?i=33).
So are you saying that the current notation ("1111*.") is ok for you?
Thanks
-Vincent
 > thus making it easier for users to remember :
indent one level =
> duplicate
> the symbol .
>
> Guillaume
>
>
>> Another solution would be to use another symbol but we cannot use #
>> and the second most common solution is "1."
>> See 
http://www.wikimatrix.org/syntax.php?i=33
>>
>> I'm hesitating but I propose to use Solution 2 which seems the most
>> consistent to me.
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>