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I think a way to make them work is to add two spaces after each line. Here's a test...
Hopefully that works.
It did :-)
That's a placebo and it's not doing anything. Bulleted lists never need two spaces at the end of each line. You only use two spaces at the end of line that are not in bulleted or numbered lists.
The bug is that Sync requires a blank line before you start the bulleted list. The Lemmy website doesn't require that.
Here is your comment with no spaces at the end of each line:
spaces after each line. Here's a test...
See? It still works fine.
Now here's an example of what two spaces do.
The first sentence below has a new line after each word but no spaces. The second sentence has two spaces and a new line after each word. The spaces force a line break to be rendered.
This Is Not A List
This
Is
Not
A
List
Source of the above:
This feature of markdown was implemented to prevent text from emails and such from wrapping in funny ways when pasted into a comment (or whatever). Old emails often force line breaks after 80 columns of text and it looks goofy when viewed in a modern web browser if those line breaks are kept, so they are ignored. To preserve the line breaks, you add two spaces at the end of each line. That or you might prefer to write paragraphs with a hard wrap at some column, but other people shouldn't have to suffer that.
Adding the two spaces to lines in a bulleted list does nothing useful, but it also doesn't break it, so of course it works.
Ah, I see - thanks for the detailed explanation. I think I sort of knew that, but got mixed up when replying on bullets.
So I know that will make it look correct in sync, but I guess what I'm getting at is that the comment is an example that looks right in other clients but NOT in sync.
Sync should show the list correctly like other clients do.
Yeah, sorry, I got mixed up, so my 'solution' wasn't really a fix at all.