When I use a numbered list and try to place a block quote between two items, the item after the block quote registers to a number higher than its true value. This isn’t very clear, so I’ll just show you what I mean.
I’m honestly not sure what to try, but here’s what it looks like.
As you can see, it jumps from 1 to 3 even though the block quote isn’t in the list. I’m not sure how to solve this. Please let me know how to fix it.
It seems like it thinks that the last one is a continuation of the earlier list. This could be related to missing new lines and/or space characters in places they shouldn’t be. Could you please provide the source text of that note, and place it between four backticks on the line before and after the text, so that the text is preserved when posted here in the forum.
In my test vault, the number following the callout increments by one from the last number used in the callout, exactly as you describe. To stop that happening I can either:
1) List item
> [!NOTE] Title
> 1. A line
> 2. A second line
> 3. Obsidian
> **Obsidian > Settings > Editor > Smart lists > OFF**
4) And here is the next item
5) The number increments from the last callout number
Thank you very much. This worked for me.
Turning of smart lists works, but it means that it doesn’t auto-continue > for blocks which is super annoying since I have a lot of formatting like this (where 3 should be 1 and 4 should be 2):
Is there any other way to get around the problem? I hope this is a bug and not intended behaviour… this hasn’t been an issue before 1.8.9.
I had this problem too, and I think WhiteNoise’s description here applies to what you and samyw are encountering:
If so, then it could be related to what holroy and Guapa were saying about spaces. Try adding a blank line between your first list and the callout, if one isn’t already there. Like this:
I’ve also come across this many times and certainly before version 1.8.9.
The introduction of an extra line after the first list always helped. At times, once the second list was started, one can go back and erase this extra line and it won’t affect the second list as the second list is already started.
It personally never bothered me, because I always wanted at least one break line so it would be visually more pleasing, not having the callout stuck to the list above.
Cheers
I agree with you entirely. At the moment, I know of no other way to make numbered lists work. Sorry.
