Re: Bullets--To Indent or Not To Indent

["Martin, Chuck" <chuckm -at- EVOLVESOFTWARE -dot- COM>]

At a recent STC chapter meeting here in SF, a presenter suggested that
bulleted lists look better exdented from the column itself. That is, the
bullets actually stick out to the left of the column margin, while the
text itself aligns flush with the rest of the text along the margin.

I don't know if I agree with this look, but it's another point of
view....

On Friday, November 14, 1997 2:18 PM, Jan Stanley
[SMTP:jstanley -at- ROADSHOW -dot- COM] wrote:
> Damien asked whether bulleted list items should be indented.
>
> When I've got questions about displayed lists, I turn to a marvelous
> article, "Getting Ducks in a Row:  The Rules for Displayed Lists."  It
> was originally published in The Editorial Eye, a newsletter produced
by
> EEI Communications; it's now on EEI's Web site.
>
> http://www.eeicom.com/eye/ducks.html
>
> From the article:
>
> <Bulleted items look best when set with hanging indention, which may
> appear [as an indented block]...or with further indention of runover
> lines.>
>
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