Using Standard Text Formatting For Lists
- entered by PeterKorn
Plain text documents. Not applicable to technologies that contain markup.
The current Technique T2 doesn't show in the examples how list items spanning multiple lines in a fixed width document might be rendered. This proposed update to Example 1: Unordered lists shows this, which follows a convention commonly used in UNIX man pages.
Example 1: Unordered list
- unordered list item - unordered list item that may be quite long and go across multiple lines of text in a fixed width display, and so appears on multiple additional lines, each indented the same amount as the indentation of the first line, after the dash - unordered list item