From: Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com>
To: Leonard Avery Randall <leonard.a.randall@gmail.com>
Cc: orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Confused about list indentation
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 19:53:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d2fmyh2u.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <536C8E03.5020201@gmail.com> (Leonard Avery Randall's message of "Fri, 09 May 2014 09:12:51 +0100")
Leonard Avery Randall <leonard.a.randall@gmail.com> writes:
> Guido Van Hoecke wrote:
>
> How does org decide that 'He makes a really...' is not associated
> with
> the current list item? What keystrokes are required to produce
> this
> alignment or the one with the extra indentation?
>
> Org determines what headline the text is associated with based upon
> indentation (see example below). If you simply press enter after a
> list item, the text is not indented, and thus it is not associated
> with any list item. If you press tab before entering any text, it will
> indent to the level of the most recent list item. In order to have
> text associated with a higher level list item, you have to manually
> delete spaces after pressing tab or just manually insert the
> appropriate number of spaces.
>
> Example:
>
> 1. List item
> - Lower level list item
> This text is not associated with any list. Any list items after this
> will form a new list.
> 1. New list item 1
> - Lower level list item
> This text is associated with lower level list item
> 2. New list item 2
> - Lower level list item 2
> This text is associated with 'New list item 2'
>
> Hope this helps,
It does, thanks!
Kind regards,
Guido
--
I'll turn over a new leaf.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-08 16:44 Confused about list indentation Guido Van Hoecke
2014-05-08 18:44 ` Leonard Avery Randall
2014-05-09 6:44 ` Guido Van Hoecke
2014-05-09 8:12 ` Leonard Avery Randall
2014-05-09 17:53 ` Guido Van Hoecke [this message]
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