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Originally I wanted to raise a bug about the markdown formatter wrongly interpreting a list sub item as code, because it ignored the double identation instead of single identation for code in lists.

But while building a proper example to reproduce the behavior easily I found that the whole list parsing (for both ordered and unordered lists) is borked.

While I would like to be able to provide exact directions to what exactly is wrong here, the more I played around with this, the more confused I got.

What I can tell for almost certain is that blank lines are at the core of this issue. Normally items should be wrapped in <p> tags when seperated by blank lines, but here (at least for unordered list items in ordered list items) instead the current ordered list is interpreted as ended and a new ordered list started.

I used the official syntax from https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list as reference, which describes behavior conflicting with what Redmine produces currently.

Example Markup

1.  this is a list item with two child items.
    -  first child

    -  second child wrongly interpreted as code
1.   another item in the same list.
-  text wrongly interpreted as ordered list item

1. last item of the ordered list

Expected Output (taken form Marxico)

Output from Redmine's inbuilt Markup Parser