On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:56 PM, Jakob wrote:
> On the daring fireball page it says
>
>> If you do use lazy list numbering, however, you should still start the list
>> with the number 1. At some point in the future, Markdown may support
>> starting ordered lists at an arbitrary number.
>
> I am coding around a little to implement this feature in [Js-Markdown
> extra](http://tanakahisateru.github.com/js-markdown-extra/) and I wanted to
> also implement *all* list-types, like lists with letters and roman numerals
> (see [examples online](http://www.echoecho.com/htmllists02.htm)).
>
> My problem is that this creates an ambiguity (which may be seldom, but
> anyway):
>
> ``b. text c. text`` is clearly starting with index 2 in letter type, but ``i.
> text j. text`` (letter type, starting at 9) and ``i. text ii. text`` (roman
> numerals type, starting at index 1) are ambiguous. So are several other roman
> numerals: `ìv`` could be roman 5 or followed by ``iw``.
>
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the ambiguity would only occur when the list is of
length 1, right? Because you could check the second list item to deduce the
pattern, otherwise.
A list of length 1 is a pretty darn sad list. I would say, in that case, assume
it starts with 1 — so the only option remaining is lower-roman.
If your implementation of Markdown still allows HTML, your users could always
manually create a single list item using lower-alpha starting at i (that is,
9), if they wanted.
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