I just thought I'd post a lesson learned recently where Markdown input was behaving correctly but not as the author intended.

The author was editing an article that contained recipe ingredients.

1 cup sugar

1 pound of whipped cream

1 cup of honey

(not the actual recipe)  but when Markdown comes across a new line starting with a number, it automatically generates an ordered list.  In our example the resulting XHTML output would look more like this:

1. cup sugar
2. pound of whipped cream
3. cup of honey

And the fix was to "escape" the numbers at the beginning of the line.  That is, when you want a number to begin a new paragraph, enter the Markdown escape character, the backslash

\1  cup of sugar

\1 pound of whipped cream

\1 cup of honey

 

...and the resulting page will be more as you would expect it to be.
 

 

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Sincerely,

Carl
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