Problem with nested ordered lists: recognised as paragrapg

[jerry1970]

Trying to parse a table of contents with nested ordered lists is not going well.

I have a very old (November 1996) FAQ in plain text that starts like this:

  1) IQ ON INTERNET

  1.1) It All Posts Here Mailing List

    1.1.1) What is 'It All Posts Here' ?
    1.1.2) A brief history of the list
    1.1.3) IAPH Administrivia

When I rewrite that into this:

1. IQ ON INTERNET
   1. It All Posts Here Mailing List
      1. What is 'It All Posts Here' ?
      1. A brief history of the list
      1. IAPH Administrivia

the results are the same: the third level is parsed as a paragraph.

I assume this has to do with what is describer in processListItems as "The $this->list_level global keeps track of when we're inside a list.". With blank lines in between the nested level is parsed as a code block because of the indentation.

How can I prevent this from happening for the table of contents?

[michelf]

Your rewriten version seems to work correctly for me if I copy-paste this in the dingus: no paragraph anywhere.

Can you tell me which version of PHP Markdown you are using? Or any other tools doing some pre- or post-processing that could interfere?

[michelf]

One note: the Markdown rule is that four spaces (or one tab) constitutes one indentation level. PHP Markdown (as well as the original Markdown.pl it is based on) is more tolerant than the specs says about list indentation, but perhaps using four-space indents could help with whatever is causing this.