Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] Support for custom start index for `ol` (merge request)

[Gerry L. <gjl...@gm...>]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 10:10:05PM -0400, Waylan Limberg wrote:
> Thanks Rohan. I made a few comment son the request page. Address those
> issues and I'll merge your request.
> 
> But I do have a question for everyone: Should this be a configurable
> setting, perhaps on the Markdown class? In other words, should we make
> it easy to turn on and off?
> 
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Rohan Jain <cr...@gm...> wrote:
> > The definition of ordered list
> > on http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
> > says that the list starting with a number different from `1` can, in future,
> > define the
> > starting index of the unordered list (search for `3. Bird` on the page).
> > So I wrote a patch for doing this. Here is the merge request:
> > https://gitorious.org/python-markdown/mainline/merge_requests/13

That approach seems eminently reasonable.  I'd say default it to 'OFF'
for backwards compatibility purposes; otherwise, someone somewhere will
trip over it.  I assume it would be a command line option as well?

Regards-
Gerry