Here is the correct syntax for what it looks like you're trying to do:

Buggy lists

• main item
  • sub-item #1

*: indented note

• sub-item #2

nick-mediazilla wrote:

While the specific case below can be resolved, there are still several problems
when you embed indentation or preformatted text within a list. As another example:

Buggy lists

• main item
  • sub-item #1

*: indented note

• sub-item #2

Will force sub-item #2 to re-number as "1". From reading through the parser
code, it does not look like there's a way to handle this case.

If that's really what you want, then that's correct: you'd be using two separate numbered lists, separated by an
area of indentation.

If the indented comment is supposed to be indented relative to the _item_, though, this might make more sense:

• main item
  • sub-item #1

*#: indented note

• sub-item #2