Question

Why does this work?

(I went back to the original which I had inadvertently trimmed on pasting into this question. My fault). -- VickiBrown - Updated 29 Sep 2008

   * Name: 
   * Backyard Login: 
   * Email: 


__Personal Preferences (details in %TWIKIWEB%.TWikiVariables)__
   * Horizontal size of text edit box:
      * Set EDITBOXWIDTH = 80
   * Vertical size of text edit box:
      * Set EDITBOXHEIGHT = 40
   * Optionally write protect your home page: (set it to your %TWIKIWEB%.WikiName)
      * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = 

__Related topics__
   * %TWIKIWEB%.%WIKIPREFSTOPIC% has site-level preferences of %WIKITOOLNAME%.
   * %WEBPREFSTOPIC% has preferences of the %WIKITOOLNAME%.%WEB% web.
   * %WIKIUSERSTOPIC% has a list of other TWiki users.

   * foo
      * foo
         * foo

The three "Sets" are not "properly" indented. See the "foo" set at the bottom for comparison. Use Raw View to compare.

Yet, I see bullets.

• Name:
• Backyard Login:
• Email:

Personal Preferences (details in TWikiVariables)

• Horizontal size of text edit box:
  • Set EDITBOXWIDTH = 80
• Vertical size of text edit box:
  • Set EDITBOXHEIGHT = 40
• Optionally write protect your home page: (set it to your WikiName)
  • Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE =

Related topics

• TWikiPreferences has site-level preferences of TWiki.
• WebPreferences has preferences of the TWiki.Support web.
• TWikiUsers has a list of other TWiki users.

• foo
  • foo
    • foo

Environment

-- VickiBrown - 25 Sep 2008

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

The bullet syntax is "multiple of three spaces followed by an asterisc" so

• The bullet is in column 4
  • The bullet is in column 7
    • The bullet is in column 10

is the normal behavior.

* at column 17 won't work

-- RafaelAlvarez - 25 Sep 2008

No. Good answer, but no.

The verbatim looks acceptable. The asterisks appear to line up.

But if you do a raw view, they don't.

And the answer seems to be - those are tab-idented *'s.

(I still don't understand why they work, though. tabs??)

-- VickiBrown - 29 Sep 2008

hmm... weird, i didn't saw that.. Anyway, for compatibility with older TWiki versions a tab is the same as three spaces, but the usage is deprecated and not encouraged. So tab+3 spaces+* is the same as 6 spaces+*

-- RafaelAlvarez - 29 Sep 2008

weird. I've never seen anyone (except one co-worker we all agreed was strange) treat 3 spaces as equivalent to a tab.

-- VickiBrown - 21 Oct 2008

Ah, tabs. A blast from the past. Gotta wonder why we don't replace them on save with 3 spaces...

-- MartinCleaver - 22 Oct 2008