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  2. CONFSERVER-1208

Add ability to start a numbered list at a specific starting value

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      I've found that when you are creating numbered lists using the # markup, if you have large lists that get broken up by other markup, that the list numbering resets back to 1. It would be great if:

      a) You could use a particular syntax for starting a numbered list at a specific starting value. Example:

      #6 This is a numbered item that will start with 6.

      b) You could mark a block of markup with start and stop blocks. Maybe

      {list}

      would work. So, something like:

      {list}
      # Item 1
      # Item 2

      Stuff



      # Item 3
      blah blah blah

      # Item 4{list}

      would render as:

      1. Item 1
      2.# Item 2

      Stuff

      3. Item 3
      blah blah blah

      4. Item 4

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            [CONFSERVER-1208] Add ability to start a numbered list at a specific starting value

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            Comment [ It continues to be embarrassing to push for confluence as our documentation tool, primarily because of the lack of numbered list capability. Sure we have a dozen half-suitable workarounds, but you're talking about forcing the people who *want* to be advocates for confluence with having to spend half their introduction to confluence explaining how to convert an SOP document that has a numbered list and images into a confluence document via workarounds.   It is so bizarrely out of place for a tool otherwise so powerful. 

            It's not even the feature, it's the dissonance and UX penalty of learning a documentation tool and your first task being learning how to work around what feels like a missing feature that has been more or less standard elsewhere since the 90s.  ]
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              0e1d1dcfc133 Armond Avanes
              9471c839171f David Czarnecki
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