• squaresinger@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 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

          • squaresinger@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 days ago

            The only difference to the standard that I see is that the standard says it should be 1,2,3,4,5, while at least for me it renders as 5,6,7,8,9.

            But that’s probably because it doesn’t render as HTML and thus doesn’t rely on HTML to do the numbering.