Keeping a Markdown ordered list in proper working order has always been tricky for me. I always seem to end up up with indentation characters that reset the next item back to the number 1.

Here's how to make a list containing paragraphs without the list item numbers resetting.

The key appears to be to indent each line of content by an equal number of spaces - and indent both blank lines and those with text.

Example markdown source:

    1. This is an example ordered list

        Look, a paragraph!

        And another!

    1. This is the second item.

    1. Here's another list with a code block.

        Here's the first paragraph.

        And here's some code:

        :::bash
        echo "Hello world!"

        And another block of code:

        :::bash
        echo "Bye world!"

        All done!

    1. This is the fourth list item.

Here's what the above looks like after rendering with pelican:

1. This is an example ordered list

   Look, a paragraph!

   And another!

2. This is the second item.

3. Here's another list with a code block.

   Here's the first paragraph.

   And here's some code:

   echo "Hello world!"
   

   And another block of code:

   echo "Bye world!"
   

   All done!

4. This is the fourth list item.