I have a couple of teeny tiny issues with markdown.
At present a numbered list always begins with item 1, even if (for some reason) you want to begin at 2 or 0 or whatever. (Often nice to begin a list with 0 when there’s some funny point you want to ‘get out of the way’ before proceeding to the ‘real list’.)
[ETA: Ignore this point] Links don’t work if the URL contains parentheses. This can be worked around if you use tinyurl, but it’s annoying. A quick (but not perfect) fix would be to allow nested parentheses within a markdown link.
Links don’t work if the URL contains parentheses. This can be worked around if you use tinyurl, but it’s annoying. A quick (but not perfect) fix would be to allow nested parentheses within a markdown link.
Refer to markown syntax for how to escape markdown syntax operators. It is handled the same way as handling, for example, literal_underscores_instead_of_italics.
My first point is clearly a ‘bug’ though: writing “2. something” shouldn’t create output that looks like “1. something”.
Or, at least, it is a feature which someone could legitimately not desire. The numbered list feature is just a way to specify html—so like in html the formatting is up to CSS. If you don’t want a vanilla html numbered list generated then you just have to do the numbering manually and once again escape the character for the unwanted syntax. In this case that means the period.
2. One 1. Two
Yes, this is somewhat annoying to do. It is also annoying that you don’t have control of the CSS used from inside the markdown. Which gets frustrating for nested lists when the default formatting sucks. Come to think of it that’s another feature request. Change one line in the CSS to improve nested lists.
I have a couple of teeny tiny issues with markdown.
At present a numbered list always begins with item 1, even if (for some reason) you want to begin at 2 or 0 or whatever. (Often nice to begin a list with 0 when there’s some funny point you want to ‘get out of the way’ before proceeding to the ‘real list’.)
[ETA: Ignore this point] Links don’t work if the URL contains parentheses. This can be worked around if you use tinyurl, but it’s annoying. A quick (but not perfect) fix would be to allow nested parentheses within a markdown link.
Refer to markown syntax for how to escape markdown syntax operators. It is handled the same way as handling, for example, literal_underscores_instead_of_italics.
Yes, that’s as good a solution as one could hope for.
My first point is clearly a ‘bug’ though: writing “2. something” shouldn’t create output that looks like “1. something”.
Or, at least, it is a feature which someone could legitimately not desire. The numbered list feature is just a way to specify html—so like in html the formatting is up to CSS. If you don’t want a vanilla html numbered list generated then you just have to do the numbering manually and once again escape the character for the unwanted syntax. In this case that means the period.
2. One
1. Two
Yes, this is somewhat annoying to do. It is also annoying that you don’t have control of the CSS used from inside the markdown. Which gets frustrating for nested lists when the default formatting sucks. Come to think of it that’s another feature request. Change one line in the CSS to improve nested lists.
2.Dog1Cat234
23423
\2. Cat \1. Dog
You can link to a URL that ends in a parenthesis by escaping the parenthesis that belongs to the URL.
Thanks—useful to know.