Nested numbered list with decimal formatting

Question

I have a bulleted list that has a numbered sublist that I can't get to format as I want.

- foo
- bar
   1. some
   1. thing
   1. else
- baz

On GitHub this renders as:

 - foo
 - bar
     i. some
    ii. thing
   iii. else
 - baz

What I'd like is:

 - foo
 - bar
     1. some
     2. thing
     3. else
 - baz

The following issue didn't seem to help https://github.com/github/markup/issues/210

This is not a duplicate of Markdown: What's the proper way to do a continued list inside of a list? as that is about how to have the numbering continue across higher level list elements.

Seems you can't. See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54101316/markdown-whats-the-proper-way-to-do-a-continued-list-inside-of-a-list/. — dr0i, Apr 25 '19 at 16:05
That question looks to be about getting the numbers to continue across higher level list items. I just want it to use the first level numbered list for the numbered list — hardillb, Apr 25 '19 at 16:15

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 25 '19 at 19:39

This isn't really a Markdown issue; Markdown cares about semantics, not presentation. This is about how the generated <ol> is styled.

GitHub doesn't permit custom styling¹ of their rendered Markup, and that includes setting list-style-type to decimal. You're stuck with the styles they've chosen.

¹E.g., see How to add color to Github's README.md file, Which inline html styles does GitHub markdown accept?, and How to retain HTML formatting in GitHub readme file upon upload?.

Nested numbered list with decimal formatting

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