Numbered Lists in callouts: Indenting an item (pressing tab) does not renumber the item correctly

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There’s issues with automatically numbered lists behaving differently when they are inside a callout, versus when they aren’t.

First, inside callouts when you’re on a numbered list line, the numbering doesn’t reset to 1 when you press enter and then TAB. They do outside of callouts. Since this forum doesn’t allow .mp4 uploads of the two 10 second screen recordings I made, I can’t show this.

Second, inside callouts for numbered lists indents aren’t shown in both Reading and Live Preview mode if there’s more than one level of indent.

Second issue:

Steps to reproduce

copy paste the following into a note:

> [!NOTE] Title
> 1. no indent
> 	2. one indent
> 		3. two indents

Expected result

Indent levels aren’t ignored if there’s more than one indent

Actual result

All indenting is ignored in both Reading and Live Preview mode.

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SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.8.9
Installer version: v1.7.7
Operating system: Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

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[quote=“SublimePeace, post:1, topic:99212”]
copy paste the following into a note:

> [!NOTE] Title
> 1. no indent
> 	2. one indent
> 		3. two indents

This is not a valid list according to markdown (regardless of it being in callout or not). See here.

I don’t quite understand why you would write something like that.

Perhaps you wanted to write

> [!NOTE] Title
> 1. no indent
> 	1. one indent
> 		1. two indents
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@WhiteNoise As mentioned in my initial post, you cannot write the following in Obsidian with the Smart lists feature turned on:

> [!NOTE] Title
> 1. no indent
> 	1. one indent
> 		1. two indents

It’s just simply not possible due to the bug. It numbers itself like so:

https://i.imgur.com/R0TItPd.mp4

And even if you go back afterwards to correct the numbering, it will instantly revert back.

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I discovered further issues with callouts and Smart lists while testing this, putting it in this thread as I’m guessing it’s related.

Here is what happens when you have Smart list turned on, and want to put a numbered list into a callout:

https://i.imgur.com/BhRnDyK.mp4

And here is what happens when Smart lists is turned off (it works as it should):

https://i.imgur.com/1hc3XTF.mp4

In both recordings I used the “Insert callout” hotkey.

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This will be fixed in 1.8.10

This is a duplicate of: