On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:16:50 +0000, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I am looking at the source and see that enumerated lists are defined by:
>
>  1.  Hello
>  2.  Goodbye
>
>i.e. a two spaces, a number, a period, two spaces, text.
>
>Why was it decided to use that syntax instead of the common # syntax? This 
>means that if I have a list of ten things and want to add in an item after 
>position 4, I have to reorder the entire list.
>
>In the fossil docs for the rationale of the wiki markup, I read: "The wiki 
>markup used by fossil, though limited, is common to most other wiki engines, 
>is intuitive, and is sufficient for 90% of all formatting tasks." I've used a 
>lot of wiki's and have not seen the numbered list syntax of above and it does 
>not seem intuitive either.
>
>I made the change to fossil to support
>
>  #  Hello
>  #  Goodbye
>
>can I commit the change drh? The 
>
>  1.  Hello
>  2.  Goodbye
>
>syntax is intact and unchanged.


I don't get it. We never had to number the list ourselves.
What was wrong with :

Numbered list

  0  Number one
  0  Number two
  0  Number three
-- 
  (  Kees Nuyt
  )
c[_]
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