This serves as testcase for simple lists.

 * Item 1
 * This item paragraph runs over
   several lines.

This serves as testcase for nested lists.

 * Item 1
 * This item paragraph runs over
   several lines.
   * Nested item 1
     * Sub-sub item
   * Nested item 2

Leading spaces are optional, and hyphen or plus can be used as list markers.

- This item paragraph runs over
  several lines.
+ This item paragraph runs over
  several lines.
* This item paragraph runs over
  several lines.
  - Nested item 1
    + Sub-sub item
  + Nested item 2

Normal paragraph.