Render a list for both html and pdf format?

[tony-an-phd]

Description

When I specify both html and pdf as output format, I write a list as

- item one
- item two 

etc.. and it rendered just as "- item one" in both html and pdf, instead of the normal bullet + indentation for a usual list. So I decided to use <ul> <li> </ul>as the markdown for html, and it looks correctly in the html output, but the pdf will just print these tags as plain text. So how do I make a list that can make both output rendered correctly?

[mcanouil]

Could you share a small self-contained "working" (reproducible) example to work with, i.e., a complete Quarto document or a Git repository? The goal is to make it as easy as possible for us to recreate your problem so that we can fix it: please help us help you! Thanks.

---
title: "Quarto Playground"
format: pdf
keep-tex: true
---

- item one
- item two

---

You can share a self-contained "working" (reproducible) Quarto document using the following syntax, i.e., using more backticks than you have in your document (usually four ````).
See https://quarto.org/bug-reports.html#small-is-beautiful-aim-for-a-single-document-with-10-lines.

If you have multiple files (and if it is absolutely required to have multiple files), please share as a Git repository.

R	Python
````qmd --- title: "Reproducible Quarto Document" format: html engine: knitr --- This is a reproducible Quarto document. {{< lipsum 1 >}} ```{r} x <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) y <- c(1, 4, 9, 16, 25) plot(x, y) ``` {#fig-placeholder} {{< lipsum 1 >}} The end after @fig-placeholder. ````	````qmd --- title: "Reproducible Quarto Document" format: html engine: jupyter --- This is a reproducible Quarto document. {{< lipsum 1 >}} ```{python} import matplotlib.pyplot as plt x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] y = [1, 4, 9, 16, 25] plt.plot(x, y) plt.show() ``` {#fig-placeholder} {{< lipsum 1 >}} The end after @fig-placeholder. ````

Additionally and if not already given, please share the output of quarto check within a code blocks (i.e., using three backticks ```txt), see https://quarto.org/bug-reports.html#check.

[mcanouil]

That's not how Markdown works.

Your syntax is invalid thus not working.

Please read the guide on authoring using Markdown: https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/markdown-basics.html

[tony-an-phd]

Well, that's I got the example, I tried used * first actually, it just printed a *, so I asked chatGTP and it suggested me to use -, and it didn't work, so it suggested me to use the html tag. lol So, what's the valid syntax then?

[mcanouil]

There are no examples of first level markdown list that are indented.
Look at the code I provided and look at the examples from the guide.

[tony-an-phd]

Besides not indented, they are not changed into bullet. Let's forget about my code. Can you provide an example to your code that produces both html and pdf that rendering the list the same way?

[mcanouil]

Take the code I shared earlier and add the HTML format.

This is wrong:

    - item 1
    - item 2

This is correct and documented:

- item 1
- item 2

Look how it is coloured differently even here on GitHub.

[tony-an-phd]

Never mind. I used the markdown-mode in emacs and it automatically indented the listed items in the qmd file, and those indentations in qmd are translated into \begin{verbatim} instead of \begin{itemize} in tex. Once I removed those indentation, they are rendered both correctly in pdf and html output.