On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:01 PM, omd <c.ome...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rule 2429 puts special status on "paragraphs" when considering > whitespace. However, paragraphs are not defined. > Rule 1728 consists of several nested lists. Some list items > are separated by a blank line, some list items aren't. The > first block list (items 1-4) seems like a single paragraph, > while later lists in the Rule seem like multiple paragraphs. > So how many paragraphs are in Rule 1728, among multiply-nested > lists? (This is so I know my flexibility as a Rulekeepor for > formatting lists).
The rule's vague, but I'm pretty sure the paragraph break bit is just meant to prohibit merging items intended to be separated by newlines onto the same line... not changing the amount of vertical space. (That is, some sequences of whitespace are nonequivalent in the case of paragraph breaks, but others implicitly still are.)
