Can everyone please try to do these using the built-in method, where you use an asterisk: *
It is in the Posting Tips.
This
gives you
Note the blank lines; they are required.
The result looks a lot neater.
If you want to insert an actual asterisk into a post, it is here.
Sure!
Reasons why documents should be written in MarkDown
We used to use Markdown until about 2013 but it created many problems with copied/pasted content (loss of formatting) so went to Textile – see Posting Tips.
Both formatters were modified anyway but whatever you do you end up with a heavily hacked version, to support things like auto youtube/vimeo link processing… There are still some issues with URL identification if the URL contains round brackets etc… for those you have to use the link mode