3rd level lists become 2nd level ul lists.

[postmodern]

I noticed that 3rd level nested lists are emitted as 2nd level <ul> lists.

• https://raw.github.com/postmodern/ruby-install/master/ChangeLog.md
• https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install/blob/master/ChangeLog.md#010--2013-05-28

Tested on RedCarpet 2.2.2 and 2.3.0. Kramdown correctly nests 3rd nested level lists.

redcarpet ChangeLog.md > ChangeLog.redcarpet.html
firefox ChangeLog.redcarpet.html
kramdown -i markdown -o html <ChangeLog.md >ChangeLog.kramdown.html
firefox ChangeLog.kramdown.html

[aprescott]

See #115 where @vmg commented about a year ago on this, although things may have changed.

[robin850]

I think that this is not itended because 3rd level lists should be 3rd level lists ; lists should be considered as third level ones starting from the 4th level, no? However, if it is the expected behaviour, I personally think that 2 is not enough and we should also add an option to allow the user to choose its own maximum nesting level.

[aprescott]

From #115, looks like max_nesting is a C-related thing to achieve that, although obviously Ruby bindings would be another thing. (I might be talking nonsense...)

[postmodern]

max_nesting is not an appropriate solution, since GitHub sets that value.

[aprescott]

Are you trying to fix a GitHub markdown issue by getting it fixed in Redcarpet? GitHub doesn't use Redcarpet, unless you mean something else.

[aprescott]

(I also didn't mean that max_nesting would be a fix for you as a user, by the way, I just wanted to throw it in as a pointer in case anyone else was going to fix it. I think 2-3 levels is probably not enough for a lot of people, and is a bit unsatisfactory.)

[postmodern]

Last I heard, GitHub was still using RedCarpet. 2-3 levels is extremely low, also I question the reasoning behind not allowing arbitrary nesting. To my knowledge, no other markdown parser has had issues with arbitrarily nested lists.

[mattr-]

GitHub is no longer using Redcarpet. They're using something different now
that is derived from Redcarpet's code.

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Postmodern notifications@git.luolix.topwrote:

Last I heard, GitHub was using RedCarpethttps://github.com/blog/832-rolling-out-the-redcarpet.
2-3 levels is extremely low, also I question the reasoning behind not
allowing arbitrary nesting. To my knowledge, no other markdown parser has
had issues with arbitrarily nested lists.

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[postmodern]

@mattr- Ah. Still, they are using RedCarpet's code-base. Not sure if they pull in upstream patches from RedCarpet.

[stefanozanella]

I might be missing something, but I was able to get a 3rd level nesting by adding an additional tab on 3rd level content. See here:
https://github.com/derecom/openwrt_builder/blob/master/README.md
https://raw.github.com/derecom/openwrt_builder/master/README.md

[gilbert]

Any updates on this? I'm also running into this issue.

[olivierlacan]

Ran into this issue on olivierlacan/keep-a-changelog#38

@robin850 I'd love to help on this.

[olivierlacan]

Interestingly GitHub's Markdown parser deals with nested lists properly.

@vmg any time to share? 😄

[aprescott]

@olivierlacan GitHub hasn't used Redcarpet in production for a long time. See #212.