Markdown Discuss - Jul 2006 - Numbered paragraph, unnumbered, numbered-- oops!

Entering a comment in WordPress, one of my users stumbled upon an 
interesting problem with PHP Markdown:

1. You write a numbered paragraph.

You write a second, unnumbered paragraph to elaborate.

1. You another numbered paragraph, and the numbering resets to 1, 
even if you number the paragraph 2.

I understand what's going on here, with PHP Markdown interpreting 
each of the two numbers as the beginning and end of an ordered list, 
but it's difficult to explain that to users.  Is there any way around 
this behavior?

-- Steve
    sg@stevegerber.com
    www.stevegerber.com
    www.stevegerber.com/sgblog

1. You write a numbered paragraph.

    You indent by four spaces and then you write a second, unnumbered
paragraph to elaborate.

2. You write another numbered paragraph, and the numbering should
continue appropriately, no matter what you number the paragraph.


On 7/3/06, Steve Gerber <sg@stevegerber.com>
wrote:
> Entering a comment in WordPress, one of my users stumbled upon an
> interesting problem with PHP Markdown:
>
> 1. You write a numbered paragraph.
>
> You write a second, unnumbered paragraph to elaborate.
>
> 1. You another numbered paragraph, and the numbering resets to 1,
> even if you number the paragraph 2.
>
> I understand what's going on here, with PHP Markdown interpreting
> each of the two numbers as the beginning and end of an ordered list,
> but it's difficult to explain that to users.  Is there any way around
> this behavior?
>
> -- Steve
>     sg@stevegerber.com
>     www.stevegerber.com
>     www.stevegerber.com/sgblog
>
>
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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
PhD Student, UC Berkeley, School of Information
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