On Mar 2, 2008, at 7:49 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
This is actually my second biggest complaint with Markdown. As I understand, John was originally going to allow numbered lists to start at numbers other than 1, but then discovered that the HTML4 WG labelled the `start` attribute of lists deprecated, so he removed this feature. I find the WG’s decision utterly baffling and wrong-headed. *How on Earth* is that information presentational?! So while I don’t disagree with the basic desire to output valid HTML, I think John’s decision in this one case was mistaken. IMO, in this one case Markdown should do what is sensible, validation be damned.
Agreed. This will work correctly in the next version. Plus, the "start" attribute is in HTML5 for <ol>. Back when I was working on Markdown 1.0, I was completely under the spell of the W3C's "strict" specs.
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