Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> When the lists with spaces in some (but not all) elements are exported
>> to HTML, they result in unattractive spacing.  This is due to the use of
>> paragraph tags in some list elements, which cause large spaces between
>> some list elements but no spaces between others.
>>
>> I believe something should be done to ensure consistent spacing in the
>> HTML export of list elements.  I'd suggest that every list element
>> should be wrapped in a paragraph tag, but maybe a different solution is
>> more appropriate.
>
> Actually, there's a special case in ox-html.el (see line 2960) that
> prevents the first paragraph in an item to get <p> tag. I guess that
> this rule is meant for short lists, e.g.,
>
>  - item 1
>  - item 2
>
> where you do not want a new paragraph for each item. So, the special
> case could be extended to also check if there's another element in the
> item before ignoring the tags.
>

This sounds like the best approach.  The attached patch implements this
change, if it looks good I'll go ahead and apply it to master.

Thanks,
Eric