On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 9:16 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-business < agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> Gratuitous: > CFJ 3778 found that list items could have whole line breaks inserted > between them and removed because they were not significant. This is > not true with paragraphs. If the section of text with ' - Gardens" is > taken to begin a paragraph, and is followed by additional list items > where the whitespace could be removed, the replaced paragraph would > include all of those line items. Or at least it is unclear where the > paragraph ends. > Looking at this CFJ (3778), it seems to say the opposite about line breaks within a paragraph: CFJ 3452 ruled that paragraph boundaries should be determined based mainly on grammatical structure rather than layout. Following its reasoning, "A" above would all be considered a single paragraph, since it's a single grammatical sentence; therefore, there are no "paragraph breaks" to contend with and the changes *[inserting whole line breaks within a paragraph]* are definitely insignificant. Grammatically, each list item looks to be its own paragraph. The list items following the "- Gardens" list item are not able to have all of their whitespace removed, as this would contradict CFJ 3778: "[there is] a prohibition on merging or splitting paragraphs". If there was any ambiguity of whether the list items are all part of one paragraph, or each their own paragraph, the proposal resolves that ambiguity by referring to one of the list items as a paragraph. -- snail
