Bullet Points Formatting after Headline [or any styled text]

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Workaround

For anyone: I have devised a workaround that will avoid the problem entirely, for now, and in a way that does not degrade the quality of the output when compiling.

  1. When you know you will be following a styled line with a list, type “DELETEME” on a line immediately following the styled line, first, then continue the list.
  2. After typing up the list, go back and position the cursor at the end of the styled line, and press ⌥⇧→ once, to select both the newline and the following “DELETEME” text.
  3. Use the Insert ▸ Inline Annotation shortcut to mark the newline and the deletion marker.

You should have something that looks like the following:

Compiling

Depending on whether or not you actually want annotations to compile, choose one of the following:

  • If you do not want comments/annotations in the output, you most likely don’t need to do anything. Since the newline is included in the annotation, the extra line and the marker text will both be removed.
  • If you do want annotations, then in the Replacements tab, on the right side of the compile overview window, create a new entry, hold down the Option key and press Return to insert a newline, then type “DELETEME”. Leave the With field empty. We’re basically just replicating what stripping out inline annotations would do when they are excluded from compile, in other words.
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