showndown doesnt translate correctly ordored list to html.

[be-next-hotdog]

While i was trying to input an ordered list as follow :

1. some text
2. some text
3. some text

showdown would transfer these to an unordered list in html :

• some text
• some text
• some text

eventually a bug ? Or showdown is not able to differentiate ordered list and unordered list ?

[tivie]

@be-next-hotdog showdown does indeed support ordered lists. In fact i could not reproduce the bug you described. Can you provide more context?

Heres a working fiddle with showdown parsing correctly a ordered list...
http://jsfiddle.net/7reex9sq/1/

[be-next-hotdog]

For the test cases :

Test case 1 :

• Foo
• Bar
• Baz

1. Foo
2. Bar
3. Baz

Transformation result 1:

• Foo
• Bar
• Baz
• Foo
• Bar
• Baz

Test case 2 :

1. Foo
2. Bar
3. Baz

• Foo
• Bar
• Baz

Transformation result 2 :

1. Foo
2. Bar
3. Baz
4. Foo
5. Bar
6. Baz

It seems like that showdown will transform to ordered / unordered list according to the first list element type. Otherwise caused by definition of markdown syntax ? I couldn't put these 2 kinds of etiquette (star/number) in the same list ? Thx a lot.

[8Miles-Mai]

yeap.
But we can do like this:

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3

#like this, add an list separator

• 1
• 2
• 3

[tivie]

@be-next-hotdog yes, this is a known bug/gotcha/feature (we haven't really decided was that is).

John Gruber's (the markdown creator) lib had this odd behavior. According to the author, it is in fact intended. I doubt it... but we haven't yet decided to "fix" this since we want to adhere to the original spec as much as possible.

As a workaround, you can add any character bewteen the 2 lists (as @8Miles-Mai suggested).

[tivie]

Duplicate of #142

[be-next-hotdog]

Yepp, I knew this solution before, and we could also type a space to each element as :

• test
• test
  1. test
  2. test

in this case, the showdown will regard the second ordered list as a sublist. StackEdit follows this rule either, also the github comment tool which we use here.

Thx all the same guys !