Thread:Project:Support desk/Basic indent formatting - I'm going nuts!

Okay, so this has bugged me for ages - but tonight I went hunting (and hunting and hunting) for a sane answer. Lists: -- Okay, great, I can continue a bullet using the br tag, but really, that's not so great for lengthy multi-para bullets (understatement). -- We could go
 * a a continued even more a
 * b
 * a
 * a continued
 * even more a

But that just looks naff, the formatting is 'accidental'! -- What should be possible (and if it is, the documentation has fallen down the back of the e-sofa long ago) is something that works like this: using semicolon's but without the absurd bolding - that would actually be quite a cool feature IF IT WORKED BACKWARDS! - bolded headings might be useful; but simplifying bolded continuation - well I ask you! -- So, I trust you'll look at the raw wikitext here - I don't really want a reply. I want multiple people who are involved in the project to make sure EITHER the docs get updated to show how to do list-item continuation without resorting to br tags, OR knocks some sense into this most basic aspect of wikimedia, to allow simple line-broken syntax for list-item continuation paras. Something as simple as "*a" "* a continued" (see the space) would work just lovely - if insufficiently backwards compatible, pick a character "* a" "*& a continued" for example.
 * b
 * a
 * a continued
 * even more a
 * b