Ordered list detection has precedence over title detection

[chrisalley]

@codinghorror

Is it really so onerous to ask the user to escape the . there? There are a lot of other situations where accidental numbered lists need to be escaped, such as:

1986. What a great season. Perhaps the finest season in the history of the franchise.

and I’m not sure why this one is so special or different, certainly not special or different enough to warrant a ton of special casing and unusual rules.

I agree that the situations are similar. That said, the requirement to use the escape character isn’t desirable (for readability reasons) in either case. I posted a related topic regarding list items on their own which might be helpful here (apologies for bringing up yet another spec change proposal so late in the game).