• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        This here is apparently the original source of the markdown specification, and there it clearly says that this is the correct behaviour: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list

        Ordered lists use numbers followed by periods:

        1. Bird
        2. McHale
        3. Parish

        It’s important to note that the actual numbers you use to mark the list have no effect on the HTML output Markdown produces. The > HTML Markdown produces from the above list is:

        <ol> <li>Bird</li> <li>McHale</li> <li>Parish</li> </ol>

        If you instead wrote the list in Markdown like this:

        1. Bird
        2. McHale
        3. Parish

        or even:

        1. Bird
        2. McHale
        3. Parish

        you’d get the exact same HTML output