DT4 Markdown unordered list rendering bug

DEVONthink
1

I’ve found a bug in DEVONthink 4’s rendering of unordered lists. I believe it’s new to version 4, because I noticed it when opening a years-old note.

The bug is that lists aren’t recognized if the list marker is indented by a space. Text for a test note:

 - Item one
 - Item two

- Item A
- Item B

I see the first two as raw text, the second two as bullet items.

List markers can be indented by up to three spaces according to the CommonMark spec and Gruber’s original Markdown spec.

2

While this may be a bug, don’t forget to check against MultiMarkdown as it’s what we are using.

3

Multimarkdown claims to be a superset of Markdown, and I can’t find any other spec for it. So I’d expect it to support Markdown syntax as defined by Gruber.

(As you might remember, DEVONthink not offering standard CommonMark — ideally Github Flavored Markdown — is the thing I’d most like to see improved in the product.)

4

The next release will fix this glitch.