Quoth _Lasar: > while I agree that this is technically an issue, I don't think it > is an often seen issue in actual human-written text. Markdown is > plain text formatted by and for humans. I don't think there are > many cases where you would want to put two lists after each other > without an introduction of sorts.
I must of course agree that it is not an exceedingly common case, or a terribly sensible decision to make. That said: Consider a student quickly taking notes, or a liveblogger publishing quickly. They may not have time to write an intro for each list, or realize that they skipped it… I personally have experienced this issue, so it does happen. Even if a small fraction of users run into this issue — half a percent, say — if I am providing a service to two hundred thousand of users (and I do), that’s a thousand people affected. > And on a side note: Gruber notes in the markdown spec that the > actual numbers used in a numbered list are ignored. So data loss > is already occuring here. Now that is true. However: Existing data loss doesn’t mean we should be okay with more data loss. The numbers couldn’t really be always matched in output given how HTML works, anyway… I personally made a mistake by starting a paragraph with “1999.” today, so this too can cause problems. (At least it’s part of the Markdown spec though.) I am personally disappointed that the `start` attribute (?) isn’t used, based off the first number in the list; this would also help catch mistakes. Given that I still struggle to see a downside to making my proposed change, I’m really hoping we can achieve a rough consensus here.
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