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Code blocks are often used on the site for the fixed-width indentation the provide. This answer attempted to use a mtg-autocard link inside the code block, but it didn't link. Would it be possible to enable the autocard link inside code blocks? (Or is there already a way to do it?)

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  • I'll look into it, but I'm not sure this is fixable. The main purpose of a code block aside from formatting is that it ignores all other formatting characters (which is also why **bolding** and *italicizing* don't work in a code block). I'm not sure if it's possible to make an exception, but I'll poke around.
    – hairboat
    Aug 7, 2013 at 13:20

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The workaround here is not to use code blocks for the indented list. If you use   to force non-code-formatted text to indent, Markdown will not start the count over.

Here's an example. This text:

1. **Albert** casts [mtg:Ancestral Recall]. [mtg:Ancestral Recall] Goes onto the stack.  
  2. **Albert** wants to do nothing and implicitly (by sitting there doing nothing) passes priority  
  3. **Nancy** gains priority and responds with [mtg:Counterspell]   
    4. **Nancy** gains priority and implicitly passes by doing nothing.  
    5. **Albert gains priority** and, looking smug, says "In response" and slaps his own [mtg:Counterspell] onto the table. Poor **Nancy**!

looks like:

  1. Albert casts Ancestral Recall. Ancestral Recall Goes onto the stack.
      2. Albert wants to do nothing and implicitly (by sitting there doing nothing) passes priority
      3. Nancy gains priority and responds with Counterspell
        4. Nancy gains priority and implicitly passes by doing nothing.
        5. Albert gains priority and, looking smug, says "In response" and slaps his own Counterspell onto the table. Poor Nancy!
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  • Thanks, Abby! I applied your formatting to the answer in question.
    – Alex P
    Aug 7, 2013 at 21:43
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I feel like that's a formatting issue: that stuff does need to be arranged hierarchically neatly, but it shouldn't be in a code block. It's just that the list auto-formatter (which resets numbering with indentation) is getting in the way of how Rawrgamming wants to show the stack using indentation for the separate levels.

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