diff --git a/vendor/plugins/maruku/lib/maruku/input/parse_block.rb b/vendor/plugins/maruku/lib/maruku/input/parse_block.rb
index e29c8488..e08cb708 100644
--- a/vendor/plugins/maruku/lib/maruku/input/parse_block.rb
+++ b/vendor/plugins/maruku/lib/maruku/input/parse_block.rb
@@ -251,6 +251,7 @@ module MaRuKu; module In; module Markdown; module BlockLevelParser
 				"I see that #{h.rest.inspect} is left after the raw HTML.", src
 		end
 		raw_html = h.stuff_you_read
+		
 		return md_html(raw_html)
 	end
 	
@@ -283,7 +284,8 @@ module MaRuKu; module In; module Markdown; module BlockLevelParser
 		item_type = src.cur_line.md_type
 		first = src.shift_line
 
-		indentation = spaces_before_first_char(first)
+		indentation, ial = spaces_before_first_char(first)
+		al = read_attribute_list(CharSource.new(ial,src), context=nil, break_on=[nil]) if ial
 		break_list = [:ulist, :olist, :ial]
 		# Ugly things going on inside `read_indented_content`
 		lines, want_my_paragraph = 
@@ -300,7 +302,7 @@ module MaRuKu; module In; module Markdown; module BlockLevelParser
 		children = parse_blocks(src2)
 		with_par = want_my_paragraph || (children.size>1)
 		
-		return md_li(children, with_par)
+		return md_li(children, with_par, al)
 	end
 
 	def read_abbreviation(src)
diff --git a/vendor/plugins/maruku/lib/maruku/string_utils.rb b/vendor/plugins/maruku/lib/maruku/string_utils.rb
index e58f715a..831666b3 100644
--- a/vendor/plugins/maruku/lib/maruku/string_utils.rb
+++ b/vendor/plugins/maruku/lib/maruku/string_utils.rb
@@ -113,9 +113,14 @@ module MaRuKu; module Strings
 			while s[i,1] =~ /\s/; i+=1 end
 			# skip indicator (+, -, *)
 			i+=1
+			# skip whitespace
+			while s[i,1] =~ /\s/; i+=1 end
+			# find an IAL
+			ial = s[i,s.length - i][/^\{(.*?)\}/]
+			i+= ial.length if ial
 			# skip optional whitespace
 			while s[i,1] =~ /\s/; i+=1 end
-			return i
+			return [i, ial]
 		when :olist
 			i=0;
 			# skip whitespace
@@ -124,12 +129,17 @@ module MaRuKu; module Strings
 			while s[i,1] =~ /\d/; i+=1 end
 			# skip dot
 			i+=1
+			# skip optional whitespace
+			while s[i,1] =~ /\s/; i+=1 end
+			# find an IAL
+			ial = s[i,s.length - i][/^\{(.*?)\}/]
+			i+= ial.length if ial
 			# skip whitespace
 			while s[i,1] =~ /\s/; i+=1 end
-			return i
+			return [i, ial]
 		else
 			tell_user "BUG (my bad): '#{s}' is not a list"
-			0
+			[0, nil]
 		end
 	end