This has been raised on these forums before, but I wanted to raise it again to find out if anyone has any more recently found a straightforward fix to set up a default format for bulleted lists. At present, indenting a bullet causes it to jolt halfway across the screen regardless of what I have my default indent and tab stops set to, and it’s making me insane. The spacing is totally inconsistent, and having to fix each individual bullet point with the ruler is a massive waste of time. And I don’t particularly want to have to use Word or Google Docs every time I make a bulleted list–I use Scrivener for writing, but also for academic note-taking, and it would be nice to be able to make a bulleted list that wasn’t unhinged!
Hello julomai, and welcome to the forum.
The issue you have encountered is a known bug with the text system in the Qt framework used by Scrivener. Our developers are working to resolve it. We apologize for the inconvenience.
What most users are reporting is that the indents remain consistent when working on new lists (using Tab and Backspace) but are inconsistent if they try editing an existing list.
One workaround for editing lists is to select the list, select ‘None’ from the list menu then reapply the list format and edit.
Another workaround is to create a style for each level:
- Create a list.
- Select the entire list and apply bullets.
- Select a few lines from the top of the list and indent them using the ruler. (View ▸ Text Editing ▸ Ruler)
- Select them and create a style by opening the style menu and then the style panel.
- Click on the + button to add a style. (e.g.Bullet list 01) Repeat for each level of indentation.
Later when you want to create an indented list:
- Create a list and apply bullets.
- Select sections of your list and apply your styles according to the indentation you want via the style menu.
One of my colleagues reports that this method holds the style, and therefore the position of the previous bullet point, if you close and reopen Scrivener and then hit return to add a new point.
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Hi Ruth!
Thank you so much! This seems like a relatively straightforward workaround and I appreciate the quick response. I’ll pass it on to another user who was experiencing the same issue.