rimez
Joined: 26 Jun 2006
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Location: Czech Republic
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 Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:03 am Post subject: NS Tip: Improving your bullet lists |
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For those of you who subscribe to the newsletter this is not new -- I thought I would put this up for those who have not yet subscribed to the mailing list. The Dogmelon guys provide tips via email... personally I think they should be put here as well...
| Quote: | Note Studio Note - Improving your bullet lists.
Hi,
Have you ever used a bullet or number list in Note Studio, and wished
it was a bit more flexible? I'm going to tell you about a technique
you can use to make your lists a bit more powerful. Here's a hint: it
uses the 'don't mark up' syntax.
One of the problems with Note Studio bullet and numbered lists is
that you can't ordinarily put paragraphs within an indented section.
This is because, as soon as you enter a new-line character, Note
Studio finishes the indented section, and throws you back into normal
text mode.
You can get around this behaviour by using the [{...}] characters.
For example, compare this (NB: these examples are designed to be
typed/pasted into Note Studio):
- one
- two
I really wish this was still part of two
- three
with this:
- one
- [{two
I really wish this was still part of two. Oh wait - it is! }]
- three
Do you see how putting the newline inside the 'don't mark up' section
prevents the bullet list from ending, allowing you to use paragraphs
inside indented sections?
This works well with numbered lists as well. Consider:
# one
# two
I really wish this was still part of two
# three?
with this:
# one
# [{two
I really wish this was still part of two. Oh wait - it is!}]
# three
Can you see how we absorbed the newline inside the don't markup
section, which both kept the indentation, and prevented the numbered
list from resetting back to 1?
There is something you have to be aware of though. If you mark a
large section with the don't-mark brackets, then you can't do any
other markup in that section. For example, you can't do bold text, or
italic, or anything else. So you have to make sure you have any bold
text outside the don't-mark brackets. There's nothing to stop you
from opening and closing these brackets any time you want - that's up
to you, but it can be a bit of a pain, eg:
- one
- [{two
I'm still in section two, and I want bold text. I'll have to turn off
the brackets: }]*bold*[{there}]
- three
Remember this trick if you want a bit more flexibility in your
numbered or bullet lists. |
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