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Post Preview Glitch

midorii·11/13/2014, 3:38:30 PM·1 votes·887 views

Hey there,

I was just posting in another board and I came across this really strange glitch in that the preview was not matching what I was typing and was changing the format of the post. I've included pictures so you can see the wierdness.

It seems after putting "1." to clarify one segment of my post, putting "2." for the second segment caused a weird formatting change in the preview and the post if posted like that.

If I remove the "." after 2, then the glitch goes away. It is very strange, see attached pictures as I feel my poor description of the issue isn't giving it justice ^^; "wierdness2.png" shows the glitch in action, "weirdness.png" shows how I fixed it by removing the "."

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Hyrum Graff11/13/2014, 10:03:03 PM2 votes

Any line starting with the format [Number]. [Text] is interpreted as a list, and indented as such, starting from 1 no matter what the number is. However, the first one needs to have an empty line above it. So this won't form a list:

  1. Stuff
  2. Things

But this will:

  1. Stuff
  2. Things

So, the first entry in the list isn't being interpreted as a list because it doesn't have a newline, and the second entry is therefore being interpreted as the first item in a list -- starting at one.

As an aside, do you happen to use the Midori browser? ;)