Discourse Markdown seems to be quite a bit different than Stackoverflow Markdown and I’m wondering how to format some text properly when it’s in an extended numbered list. Is there any way to create a blank line inside a numbered list element, so that the numbering doesn’t restart? In Stackoverflow, this markup text: 1. Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock the clock struck one the mouse ran down, hickory dickory dock. 2. Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go. produces this: [image] but in Discourse it looks like this: Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock the clock struck one the mouse ran down, hickory dickory dock. Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go.

Probably unsatisfying, but you can get what you want with , like this: Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock the clock struck one the mouse ran down, hickory dickory dock. Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go. Produced with this: 1. Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock the clock struck one the mouse ran down, hickory dickory dock. 2. Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go.

odd, I thought Discourse used CommonMark, which seems to match the StackOverflow behavior.

ah – ok, thanks, that’s a good workaround for me.

[image] jmsachs: I thought Discourse used CommonMark Not yet, it’s coming in the next version though :smiley: [image] Discourse Version 1.9 megaphoneAnnouncements Focus white_check_mark Update Emoji sets to latest, plus Unicode 9.0 additions and skin tone support white_check_mark Watched words feature for blocking, censoring, or requiring approval for certain words appearing in posts white_check_mark Add required user fields to invite accept form white_check_mark Finally integrate CommonMark tada plus table support white_check_mark new Emoji selector derived from Twitter’s emoji picker white_check_mark Implement mini-onebox …

Markdown handling of whitespace in lists

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) June 1, 2017, 10:01pm 6

You can’t mix loose and tight lists in Markdown.

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Markdown handling of whitespace in lists

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