Question

When I start a bullet list with six spaces followed by an "*" I get both a first-level bullet and a second-level bullet, instead of a single second-level bullet.

As in:

• • First item in list (beginning with a second-level bullet)
  • Second item in list

Is there any way to get TWiki (or Firefox) to just start with the second-level bullet, instead of formatting the line with two bullets?

(This is a problem for me where I use varINCLUDE to include a portion of a bulleted-list starting with second-level bullets - this first item in the "included" list has two bullets, making it confusing to the reader whether the first item in the list is parallel to the second item.)

(BTW, it displays correctly in IE6 - as a single bullet.)

Environment

-- EdYoung - 31 May 2007

Answer

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TWiki dutifully generates bullet lists indented as indicated. If you skip a level browsers will render it in "their way". Better not to skip levels in bullets.

I have not an answer on how to solve your include bullet issue besides trying to add a bullet on top if the inlclude (same line) to get the proper indent display.

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Jun 2007

Thanks for your quick reply.

After playing around with this some more I noticed that even though IE does not render two bullets on the same line, unlike Firefox, it inserts a blank line before the initial second-level bullet.

This, and your comment, led me to try putting the INCLUDE, STARTSECTION, and ENDSECTION variables on the same line as the items in the bullet list. As long as there is no newline (whitespace is ok) between any of these 3 variables and the actual items in the bullet list, a specified "section" can be "included" in another list and it appears as a single continuous list - resolving most of the problems I was running into.

This works for me as long as the SECTION bullet list is being INCLUDEd within another bullet list (which you recommended, and I can live with), but not if the INCLUDEd list is used as a standalone bullet list.

-- EdYoung - 01 Jun 2007

Sounds like you solved it. Setting as answered.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 02 Jun 2007