Obsidian doesn't treat a paragraph (text wit blank line before and after it) as separate block

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I checked your examples. A few things

This according to markdown is a SINGLE LOOSE list (which we intentionally do not render loose in reading mode).

- text
- text

- text
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you encountered this reading mode bug:

Dates (numbers with periods) get parsed as list items

In the following minimal example, the dates are displayed indented and lists are shown as loose lists while they should be tight. This is on Obsidian 1.1.9 on Windows and doesn’t seem to be a consistent bug across platforms. Numbers with periods seem to be parsed as ordered list items, even if there is no space following the period. See discussion in this thread. ## Lorem Ipsum 30.01.2023 - Lorem Ipsum - Lorem Ipsum ## Lorem Ipsum2 30.01.2023 - Lorem Ipsum - Lorem Ipsum 31.01.2023 - L…

you also encountered this reading mode bug:

Nested list rendering broken / flattened if line after is not empty

Steps to reproduce Paste the following markdown into an Obsidian file: - This is a new concept - This is nested {under} the concept - Much context is above me - Which is why this is the {case} - This is another item <!--shouldn't affect rendering--> Expected behaviour Would render like this: This is a new concept This is nested {under} the concept Much context is above me Which is why this is the {case} This is another item Actual behaviour Renders like…