[Doc-SIG] reST block quotes

David Goodger goodger@python.org
Sun, 15 Dec 2002 23:38:36 -0500


Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
>> Most markup models (HTML, current rST) treat a paragraph as an atomic
>> piece of text.  Any other construct terminates it.  But look at any
>> book - it's not so!

fantasai wrote:
> Just a note: DocBook allows for this. <para> can contain
> block-level content.
>     http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/para.html

And the result is a mess, IMO.  Put a list inside a paragraph, and then
you'll have paragraphs inside paragraphs!  I don't consider a paragraph
to be a recursive element.  That's just my personal opinion though.

-- David Goodger    goodger@python.org