RE: Formatting lists in descriptions

["Cook, Malcolm" <MEC@stowers.org>]

> Yes, why not; it’s still not very pleasant to the eye but at least it formatting
> will be preserved (except for guix-web, but we can fix it
> later.)
> 
> > And as I have an unhealthy desire to organize the same things in the
> > same manner, what variant to choose for formatting lists?  Should the
> > list items begin with "-" or "+" or "*" or "•" and should there be
> > spaces before the chosen symbol or maybe there should be just a couple
> > of spaces without any marker?
> 
> I have a slight preference for • (which is the standard thing in English, AIUI),
> preceded by two spaces.
> 
> The downside is that it won’t render properly on non-Unicode capable
> terminals (and in a non-Unicode-capable locale, Guile will emit a question
> mark instead), but I think that’s a price I don’t mind paying.


Hi - I'm late to this discussion - not sure all the issues on the table - but how about deferring to markdown in such cases.

In which case use "#" and "##" for section headers and 

"Unordered lists use asterisks, pluses, and hyphens — interchangably — as list markers"

Personally, I don't like asterisk ' * ' since they are used by emacs org-mode for headlines (albeit without leading space).

~Malcolm


> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.