How do you make lettered lists using markdown?

Question

Markdown allows ordered lists using numbers. How can I instead get an ordered list using letters? i.e.

A. the letter A
B. the letter B
C. etc
         


        

Answer 1

Late to the party, but this might help other people looking for an R Markdown solution.

In R Markdown it's straight forward. The following minimal example lists.rmd shows different types:

---
title: "Lists"
output: pdf_document
---

A list with bullet points:

- Something
- Something else

A numeric list:

1. Something
1. Something else

A list using small letters:

a) Something
a) Something else

A list using capital letters:

A) Something
A) Something else

This knits to: