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From: Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com>
Subject: Re: unattractive list spacing in ox-html export
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On 2014-06-24 09:24, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Achim Gratz <Stromeko@NexGo.DE> writes:
> 
> 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.
> 
> So, would a better solution be to remove the patch and tweak default 
> CSS
> so it provides better spacing for paragraphs in <li> tags?

Yes. But arguably, in a multi-paragraph list item, the first paragraph
should be explicit and not implicit --- hence my previous suggestion to
wrap all list items longer that [X] in an explicit paragraph.

rick