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lists are one of markdown's weak points though with numbered lists completely ignoring the numbers

• admax88q 6y ago
  Thats optimized for never having to renumber yoir lists as you edit your document. I would hate to have to change 30 numbers because i want to move an item from last to first.
  • hyperpape 6y ago
    Optimizing for readers definitely excludes lists like: 2. 3. 5. 6. 1.
    • setr 6y ago
      Tbf it’d be trivial to have a button/flag to fix it in the source, and a warning to notify the user. It’d might be debatable to do so automatically, but on demand there’s no issue (like words table of content update/warning). But the current definition of “its always sequential, that’s it” means you could do it automatically without changing meaning. Whereas do-as-I-say is stuck with being unsafe, always
• gerikson 6y ago
  This is the same as HTML's <ol> though...