I realised that I made a small mistake in my code sample above, but I can’t edit the post anymore. It should have been:
[x] Example item
[ ] Subitem
[ ] Another Sub-Sub Item
Continuation of the first item’s description
(Last line is indented, because continuations of descriptions have to be indented.)
The “Another Sub-Sub Item” wouldn’t make sense in my mind, because the idea is that the text maps to well-defined data structures, in this case a tree structure. So an item can have child items, which each can have child items, and so on. However, “Subitem” doesn’t have direct child items.
I find this restriction important, because it would allow to parse the text into relatively simple programmatic models.
The “Another Sub-Sub Item” wouldn’t make sense in my mind, because the idea is that the text maps to well-defined data structures, in this case a tree structure. So an item can have child items, which each can have child items, and so on. However, “Subitem” doesn’t have direct child items.
I find this restriction important, because it would allow to parse the text into relatively simple programmatic models.