How do you make lettered lists using markdown?
Markdown itself cannot do that, but since you can put HTML in it, this provides a pretty simple way to do it:
<ol type="a">
<li>Coffee</li>
<li>Tea</li>
<li>Milk</li>
</ol>
Some derivations on some platforms might interpret only a very strict subset of HTML. For example, StackOverflow doesn't support the type attribute. But Wikipedia's MediaWiki Markdown does, and the GitHub Wiki Markdown does too.
Late to the party, but this might help other people looking for an R Markdown solution.
In R Markdown it's straight forward. The following minimal example lists.rmd shows different types:
---
title: "Lists"
output: pdf_document
---
A list with bullet points:
- Something
- Something else
A numeric list:
1. Something
1. Something else
A list using small letters:
a) Something
a) Something else
A list using capital letters:
A) Something
A) Something else
This knits to:
At least for recent versions of Pandoc (I'm using version 1.13.1), it looks like you can use some of the fancy_list syntax without having to enable the extension, e.g.:
I. One
A. two
1. three
2. four
i. five
ii. six
- seven
* eight
II. Nine
To compile this into a PDF you can then run:
pandoc input.md -o output.pdf
NOTE: For this to work, you have to make sure you add an extra space after any letters or roman numerals: instead of the usual one space between a bullet and the text, use two instead. (see pandoc docs under "Extension: fancy_lists")
It doesn't appear that standard Markdown has this capability. You can:
- Use CSS, by putting this somewhere in your markdown document (note, this will effect all ordered lists in the document)
<style type="text/css">
ol { list-style-type: upper-alpha; }
</style>
- Use an extended version of markdown. Pandoc markdown has a
fancy_listsextension that will allow you to mark lists with letters and roman numerals.
Note: if using capital letters, two spaces are required before the text. See https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#fn1
A. the letter A
A. the letter B
A. etc