I've often tried to convert legal documents (org. constitutions, contracts, etc.) to Markdown. Legalese is often full of nested ordered lists of several varieties. A main pet peeve is that letter-ordered lists are frequent and not really supported.

1. A vegetarian shall not eat:
    (a) Chicken
    (b) Beef
    (c) Bacon
    (d) Fish, on these days:
        i. Tuesday
        ii. The first wednesday of October

Would that be worthy of support?

+++ joallard [Sep 04 14 00:38 ]:

joallard [1]joallard September 3

I've often tried to convert legal documents (org. constitutions, contracts, etc.) to Markdown. Legalese is often full of nested ordered lists of several varieties. A main pet peeve is that letter-ordered lists are frequent and not really supported. 1. A vegetarian shall not eat: (a) Chicken (b) Beef (c) Bacon (d) Fish, on these days: i. Tuesday ii. The first wednesday of October

Would that be worthy of support?

I would be in favor. Pandoc supports all the list styles you used. However, in our initial discussions the majority wanted to stay with decimal lists, with . and ) delimiters.

I feel like this is rare enough that it should be an extension.

As mentioned a few times here already, we want to focus on core before proposing any extension standards.

I feel differently, but I could live with it.

I guess the traction in this thread could tell us by proxy how rarely or not it is used/needed.

I would support the addition of letter-ordered lists. One use case that might not have been considered yet is for todo.txt, which has a format that requires lettered lists.