Numbered lists

[Ga Bowen]

What am I missing?

I don't understand how a numbered list is practical in any way.

Here is what I did in Word, the worst DTP package known to man, in 2 minutes:



Here's what I've done in H+M this entire afternoon:



It's completely unusable and means I'm having to actually change the structure of my document to accomodate H+M.

Don't even get me started on changing list formatting with tables and images.

It wouldn't be so bad if I could just use a table, but let's not even go there.

Is there something in the pipework to fix this in the future?

[Tim Green]

Hi Ga,

Don't worry, this is solvable. What you're missing is the way that Help+Manual handles list indents. There is a small default indent in all lists that is just enough for single-digit items and small bullets. For anything else you need to apply a custom hanging indent to the FIRST item in the list. That then applies for the entire list. See here for full details:

https://www.helpandmanual.com/help/hm_w ... tyles.html

[Ga Bowen]

Thanks so much, Tim.

Was getting a bit flustered for a while then.