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

Markdown itself cannot do that, but since you can put HTML in it, this provides a pretty simple way to do it:

  
Coffee
  
Tea
  
Milk

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.