Item lists rendered as task list

[nthiery]

I just noticed that, with jupyterlab-myst 2.3.1, itemized list are (systematically?) rendered as task list.

How to reproduce

• Start jupyterlab with myst >= 2.3.0 installed

  E.g.: click the binder button from the documentation. Be patient until it starts. In a terminal, run pip install jupyterlab-myst==2.3.1. Reload page.

  Do we have a jupyterlite under hand with the latest jupyterlab-myst available for this kind of quick tests?

• Create a new cell with the following content

  - foo
  - bar
  

• Render the cell.

Expected

An itemized list

Got

A task list

Note

• Reverting to 2.3.0 has no effect. Reverting to 2.1.0 fixes that issue
• This does not happen in the sandbox on mystmd.org.

[jeremy886]

I also had the same problem and needed to downgrade to 2.1.0 to fix this.

[parmentelat]

same here - thanks for pointing out the working version !

in my case I also have upgraded to jlab 4.1.x; I'm pointing it out because I have seen a few extensions break with 4.1.x, so that's an angle that might be worth exploring too.

[agoose77]

Thanks all! I'll look into this!

[rowanc1]

Very curious @agoose77 at what the problem is, I don't think that we changed anything in this area of the code, so it could be something external we are reacting to. Note that we do have a dependency for the task-lists parsing, and if that was unpinned or upgraded, there could be something going on in there (we post process, and if the internals changed that could be it).

[tavin]

#223

[agoose77]

Closed by #223

[parmentelat]

this is a very visible issue with our students setups, it would help a lot if that fix could be made shortly part of the latest pypi version... thanks in any case !