According to the formatting guidelines we should have list formatting for asterisks and pound signs. For short throw-away text like the examples they seem to be working:
It’s easy
to create
bulleted lists!
It’s the same
when creating
numbered lists!
However, when the individual items grow in length, textile is failing. Unfortunately, this is when its most important to have list formatting available, as its used to break up an otherwise impenetrable wall of text into something digestible.
Example from a recent post of mine:
*Comparing pet stats with one another is far more difficult if we can’t rapidly swap between two pets. We are only allowed to see the stats of our currently active pet and thus removing quick swapping out-of-combat makes smart pet choice a tedious affair.
*Bug clearing! While they are getting better all the time, pet are still not bug-free. The only reliable way to clear your pet of any accumulated behavior issues is to swap it. You should not be penalized for this.
*Intro and finisher pets. Some pets are great to initiate combat and some are great to mop up at the end. By forcing a long cooldown on swap while out of combat, you are either taking away a ranger’s ability to have a beginning and ending pet, or you are forcing that ranger to wait the full cooldown between every single fight. This is ridiculous and greatly diminishes the usefulness of some pet families, in particular dogs and porcines.
*Stowing forces swapping! Whether or not you want to swap pets, if you have your second pet out when you stow, you will incur the large swap cooldown when you unstow as the game will “helpfully” force you to return to your first pet. If the cooldown out of combat were returned to its short form (2 seconds?), then the interruptions caused by coming out of a stow would be greatly minimized.
This issue is further compounded by the fact that the fall-back bbcode won’t parse and will at best just get outputted as though it were regular text or at worst get random bolding of items with partial bbcode left.
[list] ]Comparing pet stats with one another is far more difficult if we can’t rapidly swap between two pets. We are only allowed to see the stats of our currently active pet and thus removing quick swapping out-of-combat makes smart pet choice a tedious affair.
[Bug clearing! While they are getting better all the time, pet are still not bug-free. The only reliable way to clear your pet of any accumulated behavior issues is to swap it. You should not be penalized for this. ]Intro and finisher pets. Some pets are great to initiate combat and some are great to mop up at the end. By forcing a long cooldown on swap while out of combat, you are either taking away a ranger’s ability to have a beginning and ending pet, or you are forcing that ranger to wait the full cooldown between every single fight. This is ridiculous and greatly diminishes the usefulness of some pet families, in particular dogs and porcines.
[Stowing forces swapping! Whether or not you want to swap pets, if you have your second pet out when you stow, you will incur the large swap cooldown when you unstow as the game will “helpfully” force you to return to your first pet. If the cooldown out of combat were returned to its short form (2 seconds?), then the interruptions caused by coming out of a stow would be greatly minimized.[/list]
This is the first of a really long list item. I wish I could think of lots of clever stuff to put in here, but it’s really just filler. Lots and lots of filler. Maybe a little more filler, just to do a good test. More? OK, here’s some more.
This is the second of a really long list item. I wish I could think of lots of clever stuff to put in here, but it’s really just filler. Lots and lots of filler. Maybe a little more filler, just to do a good test. More? OK, here’s some more. Yes, I’m lazy and I copy and paste.
This is the third of a really long list item. Spam spam spam spam, bacon, beans and spam. Spam, sausage, spam, spam, spam and spam.
This is the first of the second stanza of a really long bullet list item. I wish I could think of lots of clever stuff to put in here, but it’s really just filler. Lots and lots of filler. Maybe a little more filler, just to do a good test. More? OK, here’s some more.
This is the second of the second stanza of a really long bullet list item. I wish I could think of lots of clever stuff to put in here, but it’s really just filler. Lots and lots of filler. Maybe a little more filler, just to do a good test. More? OK, here’s some more. Yes, I’m lazy and I copy and paste.
This is the third of the second stanza of a really long bullet list item. Spam spam spam spam, bacon, beans and spam. Spam, sausage, spam, spam, spam and spam.
This is the first of a really long bullet list item. I wish I could think of lots of clever stuff to put in here, but it’s really just filler. Lots and lots of filler. Maybe a little more filler, just to do a good test. More? OK, here’s some more.
This is the second of a really long bullet list item. I wish I could think of lots of clever stuff to put in here, but it’s really just filler. Lots and lots of filler. Maybe a little more filler, just to do a good test. More? OK, here’s some more. Yes, I’m lazy and I copy and paste.
This is the third of a really long bullet list item. Spam spam spam spam, bacon, beans and spam. Spam, sausage, spam, spam, spam and spam.
You have to have spaces between the mark and the list item, and no blank lines between the items in the list.
I expect if I disabled textile with the checkbox, the BBCode list would work properly. I’ll try it in a followup.
Don’t ever think you know what’s right for the other person.
He might start thinking he knows what’s right for you. —Paul Williams
[list] [*] Comparing pet stats with one another is far more difficult if we can’t rapidly swap between two pets. We are only allowed to see the stats of our currently active pet and thus removing quick swapping out-of-combat makes smart pet choice a tedious affair.
[*] Bug clearing! While they are getting better all the time, pet are still not bug-free. The only reliable way to clear your pet of any accumulated behavior issues is to swap it. You should not be penalized for this.
[*] Intro and finisher pets. Some pets are great to initiate combat and some are great to mop up at the end. By forcing a long cooldown on swap while out of combat, you are either taking away a ranger’s ability to have a beginning and ending pet, or you are forcing that ranger to wait the full cooldown between every single fight. This is ridiculous and greatly diminishes the usefulness of some pet families, in particular dogs and porcines.
[*]Stowing forces swapping! Whether or not you want to swap pets, if you have your second pet out when you stow, you will incur the large swap cooldown when you unstow as the game will “helpfully” force you to return to your first pet. If the cooldown out of combat were returned to its short form (2 seconds?), then the interruptions caused by coming out of a stow would be greatly minimized.
[/list]
Nope it doesn’t. Even though the BBCode for list isn’t explained in the help, it’s unexpected that only a subset is supported. Let’s try a short list:
[list=1]
[*] It appears
[*] that the BBCode for lists
[*] doesn’t work.
[/list]
Don’t ever think you know what’s right for the other person.
He might start thinking he knows what’s right for you. —Paul Williams
I hate textile formatting by the way because it blocks our beautiful Asian emoticons like this: ~_^
Edit: Oh, GW2 forum team fixed it. Haha nice. First textile formatting fix I have seen. (Other software that uses textile are too lazy to fix it. Kudos to GW2 team again.) Even this works now! —>
