How to create lettered lists?

In R-Markdown you can automatically create lettered lists using the following code:

---
title: "Untitled"
author: "Author"
date: "2022-07-21"
output: html_document
---

# Example

a) something
a) something

Output:

I tried using the same commands in Quarto:

---
title: "Untitled"
format: html 
editor: visual
---

a) something

a) something

Output:

So I was wondering if it is possible to automatically create lettered lists in Quarto?

---
title: "Untitled"
format: html 
---

this is a numbered list

1) something 1 
1) something 2

this is lettered list

a) something
a) something
a) something
a) something