User:SmokeyJoe/Colon and asterisk indentation

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This is a first level post. One carriage return does not produce a new line.

Two carriage returns produce a new line.
 * One colon indents the text this far.


 * One colon indents this far. Is the the same text indentation.
 * Colon star


 * Star colon
 * Comment indented one level
 * Comment indented two levels
 * Comment indented three levels
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 * Dotted comment indented one level
 * Dotted comment indented two levels
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 * Multi-paragraph start input looks good to me.   will start a new paragraph at the same indentation, but some people get upset about the lack of   .  Apparently it breaks rendering in some situations/browsers, but I have never seen it happen.    is said to be supposed to be used instead, but does it produce undesired extra line spacing?
 * Alternatively, a new paragraph under a dot point can be produced using ":::" under "::*". It's advantage over   . and   is that the paragraphs look like paragraphs in edit mode.  Occasionally, this produces protest, for reasons I don't understand.
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