In article <928946aa0803011134y6054af3dq64a00834bfced75a at
mail.gmail.com>,
Joseph Lorenzo Hall <markdown-discuss at six.pairlist.net> wrote:
>Is there any use case other than the copy and pasting example that
>gets you whitespace before a list item marker? Do people do this on
>purpose?

   I do it all the time.

   I indent text by 4 spaces, and do

     * text

   or

    1. text


   Worse yet, I do

    1. text
    2. text
    .
    .
    .
   10. text
   11. text

  A revised markdown syntax that forbade this would be slightly
  catastrophic for me.

  -david parsons