[Doc-SIG] reST block quotes
David Goodger
goodger@python.org
Sun, 15 Dec 2002 23:38:36 -0500
Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
>> Most markup models (HTML, current rST) treat a paragraph as an atomic
>> piece of text. Any other construct terminates it. But look at any
>> book - it's not so!
fantasai wrote:
> Just a note: DocBook allows for this. <para> can contain
> block-level content.
> http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/para.html
And the result is a mess, IMO. Put a list inside a paragraph, and then
you'll have paragraphs inside paragraphs! I don't consider a paragraph
to be a recursive element. That's just my personal opinion though.
-- David Goodger goodger@python.org