Re: Confused about list indentation

[Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com>]

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

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