I agree with all this. Pandoc's extended markdown syntax supports both these features (with some heuristics to avoid capturing initials in names). http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#lists
John > The HTML spec authors have admitted that they believe this particular > change was a mistake on their behalf. > > All browsers support the value attribute on <ol> <li>s, and there are > numerous real world use-cases for allowing continuations of ordered > lists. > > I for one, would like to see markdown support... > > 1. ordered 2. lists > > that interrupt and then continue > > 3. like 4. this > > > Basic support for implied <ol type=""> attributes would also be > nice... > > A. like B. this C. where the third item refers to list-item "A" above > (which becomes non-sensial if the browser renders the list as 1. 2. > 3...) > > or > > i. like ii. this iii. as well > > > ...although I realise that over-zealous auto-detection algorithms > would cause problems with sencences/lines starting with an abbrivated > proper name like this: > > A. Lincoln was an US president, and Lyndon B. Johnson was another. > > > -- Már _______________________________________________ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss > _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
