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1. • CommentRowNumber1.
   • CommentAuthorAndrew Stacey
   • CommentTimeJun 9th 2011
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   Author: Andrew Stacey
   Format: MarkdownItexSometime between April and now, an apparent bug was introduced in to the system which meant that syntax looking like: ~~~ * list 1. ~~~ is unacceptable to Instiki. The precise error is rather weird, and you wouldn't guess from looking at it what the problem was! So ... don't do it! I've found three cases of this on the 'lab: at [[enriched bicategory]], [[ideal completion]], and [[sketch]] and corrected them all. If you want to see the error, try [[doriath:enriched bicategory]]. All three cases were the same: someone had a one-element unordered list of a reference which ended with the year and for some reason, the year (with its following full-stop) had been put on a newline, with an explicit newline character (not just normal word-wrapping). That is, something like: ~~~ * Joe Extrovert. _My fantastic paper_ 2005. ~~~ The fix was simply to remove the newline character. Currently, Instiki won't let you save a page with this "bad" syntax on it. The three cases I found were of old pages with that on which must have been saved before the bug appeared (which is how I can date it to more recently than April). So this should no longer affect _looking_ at pages, and now that you know to avoid it, it shouldn't affect _editing_ pages. (It's still a bug, and hopefully will get fixed soon.) To be clear, the _list_ syntax: ~~~ * unordered list 1. ordered list ~~~ **does work**. (I've reported this to Jacques, and thanks are due to Finn Lawler for spotting this one.)

   Sometime between April and now, an apparent bug was introduced in to the system which meant that syntax looking like:

   * list
   1.
   

   is unacceptable to Instiki. The precise error is rather weird, and you wouldn’t guess from looking at it what the problem was!

   So … don’t do it!

   I’ve found three cases of this on the ’lab: at enriched bicategory, ideal completion, and sketch and corrected them all. If you want to see the error, try enriched bicategory (doriath). All three cases were the same: someone had a one-element unordered list of a reference which ended with the year and for some reason, the year (with its following full-stop) had been put on a newline, with an explicit newline character (not just normal word-wrapping). That is, something like:

   * Joe Extrovert.  _My fantastic paper_
   2005.
   

   The fix was simply to remove the newline character.

   Currently, Instiki won’t let you save a page with this “bad” syntax on it. The three cases I found were of old pages with that on which must have been saved before the bug appeared (which is how I can date it to more recently than April). So this should no longer affect looking at pages, and now that you know to avoid it, it shouldn’t affect editing pages. (It’s still a bug, and hopefully will get fixed soon.)

   To be clear, the list syntax:

   * unordered list
   1. ordered list
   

   does work.

   (I’ve reported this to Jacques, and thanks are due to Finn Lawler for spotting this one.)

2. • CommentRowNumber2.
   • CommentAuthorFinnLawler
   • CommentTimeJun 9th 2011
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   Author: FinnLawler
   Format: MarkdownItex> thanks are due to Finn Lawler for spotting this one To be fair, all I did was stumble upon an error message -- it was Andrew who diagnosed and fixed the problem, and overnight too. So extra super thanks are due to him.

   thanks are due to Finn Lawler for spotting this one

   To be fair, all I did was stumble upon an error message – it was Andrew who diagnosed and fixed the problem, and overnight too. So extra super thanks are due to him.

3. • CommentRowNumber3.
   • CommentAuthorTobyBartels
   • CommentTimeJun 9th 2011
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   Author: TobyBartels
   Format: MarkdownItex>To be clear, the _list_ syntax: > >~~~ >* unordered list >1. ordered list >~~~ > >**does work**. So to break [[doriath:enriched bicategory]], we must remove the second `list`. I see that now. (I also see that whitespace there is not sufficient.)

   To be clear, the list syntax:

   * unordered list
   1. ordered list
   

   does work.

   So to break enriched bicategory (doriath), we must remove the second list. I see that now. (I also see that whitespace there is not sufficient.)

4. • CommentRowNumber4.
   • CommentAuthorAndrew Stacey
   • CommentTimeJun 9th 2011
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   Author: Andrew Stacey
   Format: MarkdownItexJacques has fixed this now and it should be in the next update (early tomorrow morning, UTC).

   Jacques has fixed this now and it should be in the next update (early tomorrow morning, UTC).