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authorJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2014-12-13 22:35:13 -0800
committerJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2014-12-13 22:35:13 -0800
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Clarified spec on indented code blocks.
Previously the spec said, wrongly, that a blank line was needed between a paragraph and a following code block. It is only needed between a code block and a following paragraph (due to lazy continuations). Thanks to textnut for pointing this out.
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## Indented code blocks
-An [indented code block](@indented-code-block)
-is composed of one or more
+An [indented code block](@indented-code-block) is composed of one or more
[indented chunks](#indented-chunk) separated by blank lines.
-An [indented chunk](@indented-chunk)
-is a sequence of non-blank lines, each indented four or more
-spaces. An indented code block cannot interrupt a paragraph, so
-if it occurs before or after a paragraph, there must be an
-intervening blank line. The contents of the code block are
+An [indented chunk](@indented-chunk) is a sequence of non-blank lines,
+each indented four or more spaces. The contents of the code block are
the literal contents of the lines, including trailing newlines,
minus four spaces of indentation. An indented code block has no
attributes.
+An indented code block cannot interrupt a paragraph, so there must be
+a blank line between a paragraph and a following indented code block.
+(A blank line is not needed, however, between a code block and a following
+paragraph.)
+
.
a simple
indented code block