Markdown Parser Altering Quoted Text

[ccstone (Christopher Stone)]

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. ”.

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Original Text:

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1. The script doesn’t seem to reliably quit all apps. I find that occasionally 2-3 apps are still running after the script finishes.

Specify exactly what apps are failing to quit.

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?

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-Chris

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

That is how markdown works. Feel free to read more about it at http://commonmark.org

[elijah (Eli the Bearded)]

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*

2001. A year for a Space Odyssey