Hi Ben,
you correctly analyzed that this has something to do with the space
character after the the dot. Org considers a number with a dot as an
ordered list bullet only if it is followed by a space character.
Otherwise, any number like 1.23 at the beginning of a line would be
considere
This is odd, but since I've not yet taken the time to update my org-
mode to the latest version, perhaps this is a non issue. Would
someone with an up-to-date version try this out.
org-version reports: Org-mode version 5.23a
version reports: GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0,