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Subject:Tweaking the bullet-spacing From:Mark Levinson <mark -at- SD -dot- CO -dot- IL> Date:Wed, 7 Dec 1994 09:09:51 IST
I believe you will find that single spacing one-line list items, and
separating all list items by a line space if any item wraps, is a standard
format (it was adopted by IBM, among many, not the other way around).
The issue is readability, tried and true.
** But isn't the history rooted in the days when line spacing was by
integers only? I find that something fractionally more than single
is best for one-liners, and maybe multi-liners don't need a full
double-space...
mark -at- sd -dot- co -dot- il
