Numbered paragraph, unnumbered, numbered-- oops!

Joseph Lorenzo Hall joehall at gmail.com
Mon Jul 3 15:07:51 EDT 2006


1. You write a numbered paragraph.

You indent by four spaces and then you write a second, unnumbered
paragraph to elaborate.

2. You write another numbered paragraph, and the numbering should
continue appropriately, no matter what you number the paragraph.


On 7/3/06, Steve Gerber <sg at stevegerber.com> wrote:

> Entering a comment in WordPress, one of my users stumbled upon an

> interesting problem with PHP Markdown:

>

> 1. You write a numbered paragraph.

>

> You write a second, unnumbered paragraph to elaborate.

>

> 1. You another numbered paragraph, and the numbering resets to 1,

> even if you number the paragraph 2.

>

> I understand what's going on here, with PHP Markdown interpreting

> each of the two numbers as the beginning and end of an ordered list,

> but it's difficult to explain that to users. Is there any way around

> this behavior?

>

> -- Steve

> sg at stevegerber.com

> www.stevegerber.com

> www.stevegerber.com/sgblog

>

>

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
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