Bullet points indentation seems not to keep format during export

When I export a document as markdown with a multilevel bulletlist, it does not seem to recognize more than one level. So the second sub indention/level of a bullet point is on the same line as level one bullet.

How can that be? I tested in both IA writer and Devonthink. PDF and DOCX retain multilevel, it is only Markdown having this problem (as far as I know).

I don’t see particular issues with the markdown exporter’s list-level handling. Can you please send a file reporting this problem?

Outlining in Bear.md (440 Bytes)

Please, check the file. I think the issue is how many external markdown editors (including iA Writer, Obsidian and Devonthink) use tab for indenting and Bear export does not (even if tabs are used for indenting within Bear)?

Here are screenshots of edit mode and preview mode from iA Writer. The first section is from the Bear export file, the other is indentation made in iA Writer. You can see how the indentation goes further to the right.


You can see preview is broken with the code from Bear markdown export. Roundtrip Markdown is very important for me, so I hope there can be a fix to this issue.

Thanks!

I can understand your requests but from a CommonMark standpoint, Bear’s way of using indentation here is correct as you can see in the dingus

I’m aware tabs are one of the main differences between MD editors but I’m unsure if we should follow someone else lead here instead of a standard.

How about adding the option to the md export window, a tickbox or something? And on top of that make sure the exporter creates an additional extra line break for new paragraphs (which I’m not using in Bear since it looks more beautiful without it but messes up my markdown for other editors).

Tabs must be the future of markdown… hitting the space key several times is counterproductive. And I guess what I’m using of editors (e.g. iA Writer and Obsidian), where I have issues, are all very popular and pretty standard?

Thank you for answering!

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