# Markdown Parser Altering Quoted Text

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-parser-altering-quoted-text/55198>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 5, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-parser-altering-quoted-text/55198 "2017-01-05T04:27:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ccstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ccstone/32/140215_2.png) [@ccstone](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ccstone)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-parser-altering-quoted-text/55198/1 "2017-01-05T04:27:51Z")

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Hey Folks,

I just noticed this while writing a reply on the Keyboard Maestro forum.

Item 2 below is written:

```plaintext
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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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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> [@](#):
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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.

> [@](#):
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> 1. 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

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 5:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-parser-altering-quoted-text/55198/2 "2017-01-05T05:30:21Z")

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

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**Author:** ![elijah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elijah/32/104055_2.png) [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-parser-altering-quoted-text/55198/3 "2017-01-05T21:12:12Z")

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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*`

1. A year for a _Space Odyssey_

`2001\. A year for a *Space Odyssey*`

2001. A year for a _Space Odyssey_