Redcloth upwards - Nov 2009 - Bug and workaround: Extra bullet or extra (blank) list item added after end of your list.

THE BUG

Suppose you have a Textile document that *ends in* a list,
but has *several* (say, four or more) blank lines after the last list item.

==== begin hypothetical document ===* I am a short list.





==== after end of hypothetical document ===
An extra bullet (or extra blank list item) is added
to the end of your list.

I found this using Redcloth 4.2.2.
You can reproduce this with http://redcloth.org/try-redcloth

The bug can be produced with both bulleted (*) and numbered (#) lists.

WORKAROUNDS

Either will work:
   - Don''t have several blank lines on the end of a document
     following a list.  (The "Don''t do that!" workaround :-)
)
   - Place invisible text after the end of a document-ending list,
     such as an HTML ''non-breaking space character entity''.
     (Actual text:  
      Attempt to represent it to be visible in some wonky HTML email:
          )

Anyway, I thought a few people might run into the bug and need a
hint towards a workaround.

Also, I thought it was an interesting bug. :-)