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| author | http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/ <smcv@web> | 2011-01-25 12:20:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-01-25 12:20:25 +0000 |
| commit | 6a1a041b4f01f5f6f46de3e15c7fdac6543e62d6 (patch) | |
| tree | c53ff31b05bf70cfcca6f617c8e7031e8d4c3172 /doc | |
| parent | fd6ac25f3cf38380dbd07139cfe463a98bdf4c13 (diff) | |
thanks, markdown. tharkdown.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/enumerations_of_dates_not_formatted_correctly.mdwn | 20 |
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/enumerations_of_dates_not_formatted_correctly.mdwn b/doc/bugs/enumerations_of_dates_not_formatted_correctly.mdwn index 4a78ea3f9..f9ebf8c13 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/enumerations_of_dates_not_formatted_correctly.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/enumerations_of_dates_not_formatted_correctly.mdwn @@ -9,3 +9,23 @@ Testcase: * 27. March * 99. November * 42. April + +> That's a consequence of Markdown syntax. The syntax for ordered lists +> (HTML `<ol>`) in Markdown is to use arbitrary numeric prefixes in that style, +> so your text gets parsed as: +> +> <ul> +> <li> +> <ol> +> <li>January</li> +> </ol> +> </li> +> ... +> +> You can avoid that interpretation by escaping the dot with a backslash +> (`1\. January`) like so: +> +> * 1\. January +> * 27\. March +> +> or by writing "1st January" and so on. --[[smcv]] |