For plain list items with a single child that is a paragraph, do not wrap in paragraph html tags.

This is mimicking the behavior from org-mode's HTML exporter.

default_environment/templates/html/element.dust

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {@select key=.type}
   {@eq value="paragraph"}{>paragraph/}{/eq}
   {@eq value="plain_list"}{>plain_list/}{/eq}
+  {@eq value="plain_list_simple_item"}{>plain_list_simple_item/}{/eq}
   {@eq value="center_block"}{>center_block/}{/eq}
   {@eq value="quote_block"}{>quote_block/}{/eq}
   {@eq value="special_block"}{>special_block/}{/eq}

default_environment/templates/html/plain_list_simple_item.dust

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{#.children}
+  {>object/}
+{/.children}

src/context/element.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 use serde::Serialize;
 
+use super::plain_list_simple_item::RenderPlainListSimpleItem;
 use super::render_context::RenderContext;
 use crate::error::CustomError;
 use crate::intermediate::IElement;
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ use super::verse_block::RenderVerseBlock;
 pub(crate) enum RenderElement {
     Paragraph(RenderParagraph),
     PlainList(RenderPlainList),
+    PlainListSimpleItem(RenderPlainListSimpleItem),
     CenterBlock(RenderCenterBlock),
     QuoteBlock(RenderQuoteBlock),
     SpecialBlock(RenderSpecialBlock),
@@ -69,6 +71,9 @@ render!(RenderElement, IElement, original, render_context, {
             render_context.clone(),
             inner,
         )?)),
+        IElement::PlainListSimpleItem(inner) => Ok(RenderElement::PlainListSimpleItem(
+            RenderPlainListSimpleItem::new(render_context.clone(), inner)?,
+        )),
         IElement::CenterBlock(inner) => Ok(RenderElement::CenterBlock(RenderCenterBlock::new(
             render_context.clone(),
             inner,

src/context/mod.rs

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ mod paragraph;
 mod plain_link;
 mod plain_list;
 mod plain_list_item;
+mod plain_list_simple_item;
 mod plain_text;
 mod planning;
 mod property_drawer;

src/context/plain_list_simple_item.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+use serde::Serialize;
+
+use super::render_context::RenderContext;
+use crate::error::CustomError;
+use crate::intermediate::IPlainListSimpleItem;
+
+use super::macros::render;
+use super::RenderObject;
+
+/// Special case for list items with only 1 child which is a paragraph. In those cases, the paragraph tags are omitted. This is equivalent to a Paragraph but in a different struct to have a different type tag.
+#[derive(Debug, Serialize)]
+#[serde(tag = "type")]
+#[serde(rename = "plain_list_simple_item")]
+pub(crate) struct RenderPlainListSimpleItem {
+    children: Vec<RenderObject>,
+    post_blank: organic::types::PostBlank,
+}
+
+render!(
+    RenderPlainListSimpleItem,
+    IPlainListSimpleItem,
+    original,
+    render_context,
+    {
+        let children = {
+            let mut ret = Vec::new();
+            for obj in original.children.iter() {
+                ret.push(RenderObject::new(render_context.clone(), obj)?);
+            }
+            ret
+        };
+
+        Ok(RenderPlainListSimpleItem {
+            children,
+            post_blank: original.post_blank,
+        })
+    }
+);

src/intermediate/element.rs

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 use super::comment::IComment;
 use super::keyword::IKeyword;
 use super::macros::iselector;
+use super::IPlainListSimpleItem;
 
 use super::IBabelCall;
 use super::ICenterBlock;
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ use futures::future::{BoxFuture, FutureExt};
 pub(crate) enum IElement {
     Paragraph(IParagraph),
     PlainList(IPlainList),
+    PlainListSimpleItem(IPlainListSimpleItem),
     CenterBlock(ICenterBlock),
     QuoteBlock(IQuoteBlock),
     SpecialBlock(ISpecialBlock),

src/intermediate/mod.rs

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ mod paragraph;
 mod plain_link;
 mod plain_list;
 mod plain_list_item;
+mod plain_list_simple_item;
 mod plain_text;
 mod planning;
 mod property_drawer;
@@ -108,6 +109,7 @@ pub(crate) use paragraph::IParagraph;
 pub(crate) use plain_link::IPlainLink;
 pub(crate) use plain_list::IPlainList;
 pub(crate) use plain_list_item::IPlainListItem;
+pub(crate) use plain_list_simple_item::IPlainListSimpleItem;
 pub(crate) use plain_text::IPlainText;
 pub(crate) use planning::IPlanning;
 pub(crate) use property_drawer::IPropertyDrawer;

src/intermediate/plain_list_item.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 use super::macros::intermediate;
+use super::IPlainListSimpleItem;
 
 use super::IElement;
 use super::IObject;
@@ -26,8 +27,19 @@ intermediate!(
 
         let children = {
             let mut ret = Vec::new();
-            for elem in original.children.iter() {
+
-                ret.push(IElement::new(intermediate_context.clone(), elem).await?);
+            // Special case for list items with only 1 child which is a paragraph. In those cases, the paragraph tags are omitted.
+            if original.children.len() == 1
+                && let Some(organic::types::Element::Paragraph(paragraph)) =
+                    original.children.iter().next()
+            {
+                ret.push(IElement::PlainListSimpleItem(
+                    IPlainListSimpleItem::new(intermediate_context.clone(), paragraph).await?,
+                ));
+            } else {
+                for elem in original.children.iter() {
+                    ret.push(IElement::new(intermediate_context.clone(), elem).await?);
+                }
             }
             ret
         };

src/intermediate/plain_list_simple_item.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+use super::macros::intermediate;
+use super::IObject;
+use crate::error::CustomError;
+use organic::types::StandardProperties;
+
+/// Special case for list items with only 1 child which is a paragraph. In those cases, the paragraph tags are omitted. This is equivalent to a Paragraph but in a different struct to have a different type tag.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub(crate) struct IPlainListSimpleItem {
+    pub(crate) children: Vec<IObject>,
+    pub(crate) post_blank: organic::types::PostBlank,
+}
+
+intermediate!(
+    IPlainListSimpleItem,
+    &'orig organic::types::Paragraph<'parse>,
+    original,
+    intermediate_context,
+    {
+        let children = {
+            let mut ret = Vec::new();
+            for obj in original.children.iter() {
+                ret.push(IObject::new(intermediate_context.clone(), obj).await?);
+            }
+            ret
+        };
+
+        Ok(IPlainListSimpleItem {
+            children,
+            post_blank: original.get_post_blank(),
+        })
+    }
+);

src/main.rs

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#![feature(let_chains)]
 use std::process::ExitCode;
 
 use clap::Parser;