Missing requirement regarding code blocks in specs/doc
gingerbeardman opened this issue · comments
http://spec.commonmark.org/0.28/#indented-code-blocks
4.4 An indented code block is composed of one or more indented chunks separated by blank lines.
Specifically missing is the requirement that for markdown to be interpreted as a code block, it must be fenced also by blank lines.
FWIW, the code generated by CommonMark is valid. So this is just a documentation oversight.
the requirement that for markdown to be interpreted as a code block, it must be fenced also by blank lines.
But this isn't true.
# Header
code
# Header
gives you a code block. What is true is that an indented code block can't interrupt a paragraph. And that is documented, in the second paragraph of the section.
An indented code block cannot interrupt a paragraph, so there must be a blank line between a paragraph and a following indented code block.