Lists with indented roman numerals not showing up correctly

[khalid-hussain]

Greetings. I have the following source:

The _sunan_ of Wuḍūʾ are eighteen (18) and they are:

    i. Facing the _qiblah_.
   ii. Using the _siwāk_
  iii. Washing the hands thrice. For those waking up from night's sleep, intention and _basmalah_ is required, as has preceded.
   iv. Starting with _maḍmaḍah_ and _istinshāq_ before washing of the face.
    v. And to exaggerate in that for the non-fasting person.
   vi. And to exaggerate in the rest of the limbs.
  vii. (XXX And to increase in water for the face?)
 viii. And to run one's fingers through their thick beard.
   ix. And to run one's fingers through both hands and feet.
    x. And to take another round of water for the ears.
   xi. And to wash the right hand before the left hand and the right leg before the left leg.
  xii. Exceeding the required area in the four limbs.
 xiii. And the second and third washings.
  xiv. To maintain the intention until the end of Wuḍūʾ.
   xv. To realize the intention when washing the hands.
  xvi. (And pronouncing it silently?)
 xvii. And to say after its completion what has been narrated, and that is “I bear witness that there is no deity (worthy of worship) except Allāh alone without any partner and I bear witness that Muḥammad is his slave and messenger. O Allāh, make me from the repentful and from your (purifying/purified?) slaves.” along with directing the sight to the sky.
xviii. The recitation of Sūrah al-Qadr.
  xix. To perform the ablution by one's self (i.e. without the assistance of someone else)

Another attempt at the list:

i. Facing the _qiblah_.
i. Using the _siwāk_
i. Washing the hands thrice. For those waking up from night's sleep, intention and _basmalah_ is required, as has preceded.
i. Starting with _maḍmaḍah_ and _istinshāq_ before washing of the face.
i. And to exaggerate in that for the non-fasting person.
i. And to exaggerate in the rest of the limbs.
i. (XXX And to increase in water for the face?)
i. And to run one's fingers through their thick beard.
i. And to run one's fingers through both hands and feet.
i. And to take another round of water for the ears.
i. And to wash the right hand before the left hand and the right leg before the left leg.
i. Exceeding the required area in the four limbs.
i. And the second and third washings.
i. To maintain the intention until the end of Wuḍūʾ.
i. To realize the intention when washing the hands.
i. (And pronouncing it silently?)
i. And to say after its completion what has been narrated, and that is “I bear witness that there is no deity (worthy of worship) except Allāh alone without any partner and I bear witness that Muḥammad is his slave and messenger. O Allāh, make me from the repentful and from your (purifying/purified?) slaves.” along with directing the sight to the sky.
i. The recitation of Sūrah al-Qadr.
i. To perform the ablution by one's self (i.e. without the assistance of someone else)

In the first list, I've indented the roman numerals according to the numeral with the most characters (xviii in this case). In the second list, I've just used i for all the list items.

Compiling this with Pandoc v. 3.7.02: pandoc -t html5 -s roman-list.md -o roman-list.html, I get:

I don't understand what is happening with the first instance of the list. I don't understand why the first list item is interpreted as a code block. Although the numeral is interpreted and iterated for the second list item.

The second instance of the list, however, is perfectly fine.

[tarleb]

This happens because Markdown syntax requires that lines that are indented by 4 or more spaces relative to the parent element, must be treated as code blocks. Since there are four spaces before the i., the parser treats that line as code.

[khalid-hussain]

I see; this explains the first list item. What of the other anomalies?

[tarleb]

Same issue: the lines are indented more than four spaces, so they must be either a code block or the continuation of the previous list item. The latter takes precedence, which is the result that you see.

[jgm]

Look at

   iv. Starting with _maḍmaḍah_ and _istinshāq_ before washing of the face.
    v. And to exaggerate in that for the non-fasting person.

Here the item v. is considered part of the content ofthe item iv., because it is indented relative to the former's list marker. You can use this format and you should be fine:

i.   xxx
ii.  xxx
iii. xxx
iv.  xxx

though you may have problems if you insist on lining up the contents, because if there are >= 5 spaces after the period, you'll get a code block in the list item.