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Comments: To: svictor -at- HOUSTON -dot- GEOQUEST -dot- SLB -dot- COM
Beth et al:
One more vote for indented bullet lists.
Second choice would be flush bullets. (These are particularly useful where
there is no initial paragraph from which to indent, a situation I have,
unfortunately, run into in the course of my work. On the other hand, if
there is no initial paragraph, who is to say whether the bullets are
indented, flush, or outdented ;-))
Regards,
Tom <<Tom -dot- Tomasovic -at- NATWEST-PLC-NY -dot- nwmarkets -dot- com>>
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Subject: Re: Extended lists [Ref:C443970]
Author: INTERNET TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU at Multimessage
Date: 12/2/96 7:31 PM
At 12:55 PM 12/2/96 -0600, Stephen Victor wrote:
>Beth Mazur wrote:
>>
>> I'm very sorry that I'm unable to make myself more clear! I did not mean
>> to suggest that there would be lists within lists. Rather, I wanted to
>> show three types of list items in as short a space as possible.
>Sorry, I must be dense today. If your question has been answered to your
>satisfaction, there's no point in perpetuating this thread. However, I'm
>still puzzled about the need for three different bullet indentations.
I do not need three different bullet indentations. I am trying to choose
the most readable bullet indentation of the three I have shown (outdent,
flush with left margin, *or* indent). I only want one of those three in
our documentation--the question is which one.
I am partial to indented bullet/enumeration lists. They seem to be the
most common type. Our graphic designers seem to prefer the outdent for
"design" reasons. However, I believe that type to be the most unreadable.
I was simply looking for feedback to either support or contradict my position.
