SID-01755: Bullet item broken over multiple lines does not work

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The TextFormattingRules document states the following:

For all the list types, you can break a list item over several lines by indenting lines after the first one by at least 3 spaces.

and the example given looks like:

   * A bullet
     broken over
     three lines

However this doesn't appear to work. The example given on the TextFormattingRules page itself also does not work.

The generated HTML looks like:

<li> A bullet     broken over     three lines
</li>

which just creates a single line:

• A bullet broken over three lines

-- Joe Littlejohn - 2013-07-04

Discussion and Answer

As a workaround, the following seems to work:

   * A bullet<br>
     broken over<br>
     three lines

it produces:

<li> A bullet<br>     broken over<br>     three lines
</li>

which creates correctly broken lines:

• A bullet
  broken over
  three lines

-- Joe Littlejohn - 2013-07-04

TWiki supports HTML, that is why TWiki disregards newlines in text.

Yes, use line breaks to break lines. I recommend using %BR%.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-07-04

Peter, I think it's worth updating the TextFormattingRules page to include the br tags (so that it produces the output it claims to).

-- Joe Littlejohn - 2013-08-20

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