Re: spacing between items in plain text

[Bastien DUMONT <bastien.dumont-VwIFZPTo/vqsTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org>]

> As far as I understand the Markdown spec, the level 1 list is loose
> and the sublists are tight

For the same reason, it seems to me that the current output is right. But you can achieve your intent with a filter. As `pandoc -t native` shows, loose items are internally represented as Para elements and compact items as Plain. What you wish is to replace Para elements followed by a BulletList in an OrderedList or a BulletList with Plain elements with the same content.

The following lua filter works with your sample file:

```
local function isCompactList(elem)
  return (elem.t == 'OrderedList' or elem.t == 'BulletList')
    and elem.content[1][1].t == 'Plain'
end

local function process_list(list)
  for _, item in pairs(list.content) do
    if #item > 1 and item[1].t == 'Para' and isCompactList(item[2]) then
      item[1] = pandoc.Plain(item[1].content)
    end
  end
  return list
end

return {
  { OrderedList = process_list },
  { BulletList = process_list }
}
```

However, if you have more than two levels of lists, you may have to run it twice. I wrote it as a proof of concept, so it may have shortcomings with more complex lists or corner cases.

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