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That's not a bug; that's standard Markdown behavior. If you don't want standard Markdown behavior, kill the Markdown:
2\. Puzzling••
3. Meta••
5. Stack••
7. Exchange
(trailing spaces shown as • for clarity), which results in:
2. Puzzling
3. Meta
5. Stack
7. Exchange
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That's what happened! I thought you must have been really tired or something.
Any way your point about lists....
Unfortunately it is a feature of HTML itself.
The example you give is converted into the following HTML:
<ol start="2">
<li>Puzzling</li>
<li>Meta</li>
<li>Stack</li>
<li>Exchange</li>
</...
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