Re: [O] unattractive list spacing in ox-html export

[Rick Frankel]

On 2014-06-24 08:46, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Eric Schulte <schulte.eric <at> gmail.com> writes:
> I disagree, editing CSS shouldn't be required for reasonable default
> list spacing on HTML export.
>
> You can disagree all you want, that doesn't make the underlying problem 
> go
> away.  The reason for the "unattractive spacing" is that list items, 
> while
> conceptually paragraphs, do not have additional spacing after them so 
> the
> list becomes more compact.  The W3C doesn't really encourage to use 
> lists
> with paragraphs, but if you do (like Org), an explicit paragraph inside 
> a
> list environment either should also not have that spacing or should 
> have it
> at the beginning (in which case the first paragraph must be implicit).  
> So
> you'll have to modify the CSS anyway or the lists are still having ugly
> spacing. Your patch only makes it consistently ugly as soon as there is 
> a
> single explicit paragraph needed.


I pretty much agree w/ Achim. Lists are in general meant to be compact
and have short content. But given that  lists are often "abused" to
contain paragraph text, perhaps a better approach would be to wrap
anything in a list element longer than <X> (2 lines, ~160 characters?)
in a paragraph (or multiple if required) and change the default css to
only paragraph space _between_ paragraphs in list elements (i.e., after
all but the last paragraph, or before all but the first.)

rick