Markdown To-Do List Not Formatting Correctly

[jq-11]

Hello!

Here is a super small but weird bug.

Markdown creates to-do lists as follows:

- [ ] unchecked to-do 
- [x] checked to-do 

and the output looks like this:

• unchecked to-do
• checked to-do

Weirdly enough, in a bookdown .Rmd, the output looks slightly different:

- [ ] unchecked to-do 
- [x] checked to-do 

ends up looking like this

.

Here is my output for xfun::session_info('bookdown'):

R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20
Running under: macOS Sonoma 14.7.1, RStudio 2024.9.0.375

Locale: en_US.UTF-8 / en_US.UTF-8 / en_US.UTF-8 / C / en_US.UTF-8 / en_US.UTF-8

Package version:
  base64enc_0.1.3   bookdown_0.41.1   bslib_0.8.0       cachem_1.1.0      cli_3.6.3         digest_0.6.37     evaluate_1.0.1   
  fastmap_1.2.0     fontawesome_0.5.3 fs_1.6.5          glue_1.8.0        graphics_4.4.1    grDevices_4.4.1   highr_0.11       
  htmltools_0.5.8.1 jquerylib_0.1.4   jsonlite_1.8.9    knitr_1.49        lifecycle_1.0.4   memoise_2.0.1     methods_4.4.1    
  mime_0.12         R6_2.5.1          rappdirs_0.3.3    rlang_1.1.4       rmarkdown_2.29    sass_0.4.9        stats_4.4.1      
  tinytex_0.54      tools_4.4.1       utils_4.4.1       xfun_0.49         yaml_2.3.10

Similar packages like bookdown (Jupyter Book and Carpentries' templates) had/have similar issues with rendering to-do lists.

I previously raised this issue to carpentries' formatting package GitHub, and they were able to solve the issue: carpentries/varnish#156.

Thanks for reading! Please help if you can!

Have a great day!

[cderv]

Weirdly enough, in a bookdown .Rmd, the output looks slightly different:

Thanks for the report. This is CSS improvment. Can you get more precise on which bookdown format his is happening ?

Thank you !

I previously raised this issue to carpentries' formatting package GitHub, and they were able to solve the issue: carpentries/varnish#156.

This is the improvement they've done on their side.

.task-list {
  list-style-type: none !important;
}
.task-list input[type="checkbox"] {
  margin-right: 10px !important;
}

[jq-11]

Hi @cderv ! Thanks for the response!

I'm working in the Gitbook bookdown format, but I think this also occurs in the bs4_book as well (although I haven't tested this).

Thanks!