Re:GitHub satanically messing with Markdown – changes 666 to...
by CarlRJ on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:39AM
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The "solution" is to make it "not a list" by escaping every first "." in your first example with a backslash.
Yeah, this one _is_ annoying. I'm not one to post chess games, but I've run into this one a bunch in other situations.
The _only_ case where this particular behavior is helpful is where one starts _every_ entry in a numbered list with (the same literal) "1. ", and lets Markdown sort it out - and that can be handy, because you can rearrange the list items and they still number properly, but in every other case it fails - it's a feature that produces more astonishment than happiness.
Yeah, this one _is_ annoying. I'm not one to post chess games, but I've run into this one a bunch in other situations.
The _only_ case where this particular behavior is helpful is where one starts _every_ entry in a numbered list with (the same literal) "1. ", and lets Markdown sort it out - and that can be handy, because you can rearrange the list items and they still number properly, but in every other case it fails - it's a feature that produces more astonishment than happiness.