"*." doesn't start a new bullets list

[jmuheim]

Same with unordered list if you start a line with *.

This isn't true: a hyphen starts a new bullets list! This is the expected behaviour anyway (at least from my point of view), so just fix the text.

[qtnc]

As discussed, the confusion comes from the fact that the star is followed by a dot in the tutorial. To create a list, its star space some text and then the list is created when pressing enter.