SID-00853: Customize indentation of bullet lists

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I've multiple numbered and bulleted lists and I can't get the formatting to work. For example:

1. line 1
2. line 2
   • bullet for line 2 I would like this line indented the same as 'line 2'
3. line 3
   • bullet for line 3
     • yet another bullet I would like this line to line up with the line 3 bullet I would like this to line up with line 3

So the TWiki I've used is:

   1 line 1
   1 line 2 
      * bullet for line 2 
   I would like this line indented the same as 'line 2'
   1 line 3 
      * bullet for line 3 
         * yet another bullet 
      I would like this line to line up with the line 3 bullet 
   I would like this to line up with line 3

-- TaitCyrus - 2010-05-26

Discussion and Answer

If I understand correctly, in other words you'd like to show all bullets rendered with the same indent, regardless of level. This is done with the bullets in the sidebar of the PatternSkin. You can customize the style sheet, in your case you can overload the margins of ul, ol and li. Please note that this will change the bullets for all pages unless you set a topic specific USERSTYLEURL preferences setting.

See details at PatternSkinCustomization, PatternSkinCssCookbook.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-05-27

Actually what I was hoping was that TWiki would auto generate something like:

<ol>
    <li>line 1</li>
    <li>line 2
        <ul>
            <li>bullet for line 2</li>
        </ul>
        I would like this line indented the same as 'line 2'
    </li>
    <li>line 3
        <ul>
            <li>bullet for line 3
                <ul>
                    <li>yet another bullet</li>
                </ul>
                I would like this line to line up with the line 3 bullet
            </li>
        </ul>
        </li>
        I would like this to line up with line 3
    </li>
</ol>

which generates:

1. line 1
2. line 2
   • bullet for line 2
   I would like this line indented the same as 'line 2'
3. line 3
   • bullet for line 3
     • yet another bullet
     I would like this line to line up with the line 3 bullet
I would like this to line up with line 3

So basically TWiki would see an indented line and having detected that it was in the middle of displaying lists it would align the indented line at the same level as as the previously seen list item with the identical indentation.

-- TaitCyrus - 2010-06-11

That is currently not supported in the TML. Not sure what a good syntax is to get this functionality. May be better to implement as a plugin?

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-06-12

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-- PeterThoeny - 2010-08-02

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