A discussion is taking place about the Markdown parser altering quoted text in Discourse. ccstone noticed that the parser is changing the prefix of a quote from "2. " to "1. ". codinghorror explained that this is the expected behavior of Markdown. elijah suggested a workaround to disable this behavior by adding a backslash between the number and the period, like 2001\.
Hey Folks,
I just noticed this while writing a reply on the Keyboard Maestro forum.
Item 2 below is written:
2. It seems that I don't have to specifically exclude background apps (e.g., Dropbox, Hazel, Alfred, etc.). It appears that those continue to run. Is that the expected behavior?
It is clearly prefixed with a “2. ”, but Discourse is changing it to a “1. ”.
Original Text:
Specify exactly what apps are failing to quit.
-Chris
That is how markdown works. Feel free to read more about it at http://commonmark.org
This is one of my biggest gripes about Markdown. Put a backslash between the number and the period to disable that.
2001. A year for a *Space Odyssey*
2001\. A year for a *Space Odyssey*
2001. A year for a Space Odyssey