Why is typora md lists indentation working, but not in GitHub sites?

[joewheaton]

@lhaycock posted this video showing how indentation works in Typora when previewing the MD, but it does not behave correctly when rendered in GitHub (see this page he refers to). If I had to guess, it might be a difference between indenting in Typora with a space or with tabs for indents? Maybe experiment with that. Looking here, it seems that the first nesting works fine in GitHub pages, but the third and beyond not so well? @philipbaileynar or @MattReimer, do you have any suggestions?

[philipbaileynar]

1. @lhaycock the standard markdown is four spaces (so two indents would be 8 spaces), but there are certainly different interpretations.
2. in Typora use the source code mode (CTRL+/) to see what's actually getting written to the text file.
3. Avoid using tab characters.
4. Here's the GitHub markdown syntax guide.
5. Note that you can theme markdown in Typora and that there is a theme for GitHub. This should make things look a little more consistent with what you're seeing on GitHub.

[joewheaton]

Okay, I just played with editing and a few thoughts:

• It seems that these lists are really sensitive to both spacing (non-breaking spaces or tabs). It seems like two spaces or tabs is the magic number.
• The lists can have carriage returns or breaking spaces between lines (maybe in Typora, but in Git it seems different?)
• What really confused me is that I seemed to get better performance on the nested lists beyond level 3 with lists made using - instead of * as the markdown documentation suggests? Not sure why?

It seems below to work either with *:

• Level 1A
• Level 1B
  • Level 2A
  • Level 2B
  • Level 3A
  • Level 3B
• Level 1C

or with -:

• Level 1A
• Level 1B
  • Level 2A
  • Level 2B
  • Level 3A
  • Level 3B
• Level 1C

Don't know what to say. Maybe @philipbaileynar will have an idea?

I pushed a commit here: https://github.com/joewheaton-org/River-Styles-Workshop/commit/e9f57815fc4804c4221ab6fcc72bf1052e515155 to mannually get the spacing stuff fixed and using - instead of *.