Re: How does =org-md-item= produce the correct indentation for nested lists?

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

"Rohit Patnaik" <quanticle@quanticle.net> writes:

> #+BEGIN_SRC elisp
> (concat bullet
> ...
>         (and contents
>     	 (org-trim (replace-regexp-in-string "^" "    " contents))))
> #+END_SRC
>
> and I'm wondering why it's adding indentation in front of the bullet. Naively, I
> would expect the result of this snippet, for an unordered list to be something
> like:
>
> =-        [item contents]=
>
> That is, it concatenate the bullet, then three spaces (4 - length of bullet),
> then another four spaces, then the contents of the item. Instead, what I see is
> a four-space indent, followed by the bullet and its padding, followed by the
> item contents:
>
> =    -   [item contents]=
>
> This is the correct result, but I don't see how the code from ox-md.el produces
> that result.

The code makes use of the CONTENTS.

If you have nested lists

- item
  - sub-item
    - sub-sub-item

"sub-sub-item" transcoder will receive CONTENTS="sub-sub-item" and return

-   sub-sub-item

then, "sub-item" transcoder will receive CONTENTS="sub-item" + output of
nested transcoder -

CONTENTS=

sub-item
-   sub-sub-item

and add 4 spaces to each line, except first:

-   sub-item
    -   sub-sub-item

then, item transcoder will receive the result of the two nested
transcoders:

CONTENTS=

item
-   sub-item
    -   sub-sub-item

yielding

-   item
    -   sub-item
        -   sub-sub-item

Hope, it clarifies things.

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