# Two problems

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-problems/981558>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [March 23, 2023, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-problems/981558 "2023-03-23T20:54:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-problems/981558/1 "2023-03-23T20:54:49Z")

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1. Sometimes, though not always, when I reply to a post with a numbered list it gets changed to a bulleted list. Changing quoted material is forbidden by forum rules.

2. Sometimes – again, not always – when I highlight part of a post and Ctrl-C to copy it, it gets entered into a reply as quoted material. If I wanted it as a quote, I would have quoted it, not copied it.

Yes, my topic is similar to “Two ‘easy’ math problems”, but that’s in a different forum and has nothing to do with this.

And no, I do NOT want my numbered paragraphs indented! They’re not a list!

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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-problems/981558/2 "2023-03-30T02:21:00Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> And no, I do NOT want my numbered paragraphs indented! They’re not a list!

Indentation of numbered lists seems to be the standard behavior in just about every word processing app and forum website I have ever used.

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**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2023, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-problems/981558/3 "2023-03-30T16:22:31Z")

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Yes, and it irritates the [EXPLETIVE DELETED] out of me when that happens. If I want it indented, I’ll indent it. If I didn’t indent it, that means I don’t want it indented. [EXPLETIVES DELETED] programmers who think they know more about how my documents should look than I do…

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**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-problems/981558/4 "2023-03-31T01:06:45Z")

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If you put a \ between the 1 and the period, the list isn’t indented.

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**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-problems/981558/5 "2023-03-31T02:39:11Z")

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But then when you quote it, ht \ isn’t included in the quote, so you have to reinsert it.