Context

I'm using a Markdown extension that allows writing different types of lists.

• Lower alphabetic: <ol type="a">
• Upper alphabetic: <ol type="A">
• Lower roman: <ol type="i">
• Upper roman: <ol type="I">

Description

The following CSS overrides the default list styles, so the first nested <ol> will always be rendered as alphabetic regarding the type attribute.

Could this be set only if <ol> doesn't have a specific type?

ol, ul {
  // Nested ordered list
  ol:not([type]) { 
     list-style-type: lower-alpha;
  }

  ol, ul {
     // Triply nested ordered list 
    ol:not([type]) { 
       list-style-type: lower-roman; 
    }
  }
}

Related links

• pymdown-extensions discussion: Add extension to support letter lists
• pymdown-extensions pull request: Add fancylist extension
• pymdown-fancylists (will be removed once pymdown-extensions merges this feature).

Use Cases

For example, writing:

1. List item
2. List item
    1. List item
    2. List item
    3. List item

Will result on:

1. List item
2. List item
    a. List item
    b. List item
    c. List item

Instead of:

1. List item
2. List item
    1. List item
    2. List item
    3. List item

Which might not always be desirable.

Visuals

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