How do you make lettered lists using markdown?

Question

Markdown allows ordered lists using numbers. How can I instead get an ordered list using letters? i.e.

A. the letter A
B. the letter B
C. etc
         


        

Answer 1

It doesn't appear that standard Markdown has this capability. You can:

1. Use CSS, by putting this somewhere in your markdown document (note, this will effect all ordered lists in the document)

2. Use an extended version of markdown. Pandoc markdown has a fancy_lists extension that will allow you to mark lists with letters and roman numerals.

   http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/demo/example9/pandocs-markdown.html