Tiered numbers for indented lists

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Hi, new scrivener user so perhaps this is already a feature.

I like to organise my work by using tiered numbered lists, in a document, e.g. :

1. Main Topic
  1.1 First point
    1.1.1 Sth about first point
    1.1.2 Another point about it
  1.2 Second point
2. Next topic

etc.

In Mac’s pages and most other word processors this happens automatically (or after ticking “Tiered numbers” in Pages) by just tabbing after adding a new line/bullet.

In Scrivener I just get the top level with a number, then subsequent indents get bullet points.

It’d be great to add this. What would also be awesome would be able to collapse arbitrary levels too so e,g. it’d be easier to navigate (i.e. collapse all the 1.1.x items to immediately see 1.2, etc).

Also can’t seem to reduce the indentation of lists so they rapidly take up most of the page (setting the default tab stop depth didn’t work).

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I’ve moved this to the macOS section of the board, because the Windows version can already make hierarchical lists like this. They will show up correctly in the Mac version, but they will be damaged upon editing them, as the text engine itself has no support for this (they also might not make it through the compiler).

In Scrivener I just get the top level with a number, then subsequent indents get bullet points.

It’s more like, “In native Mac software…”. Check TextEdit for example, where you will find all of the same behaviours, even the same exact menus and custom list creation tool, exact same hard-coded (and yes, I agree, a bit excessive) indenting. We have very little code in Scrivener for lists, and what code we do have is almost entirely fixing the piles upon piles of Apple bugs.[1] As noted many times in the past here on the forum, even adding a small feature would essentially mean throwing everything away and starting over from scratch—and that’s a lot of work.

  1. Pages doesn’t count. Apple doesn’t eat their own dogfood. ↩︎

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Ah shame, I hadn’t realised this was an implementation limitation :frowning:

Thanks anyway

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I have a bit of a related question … is there any way to fix the width between the bullet and the beginning of a text string? I find the width excessively wide but it doesn’t seem to be controlled by the tab. Using the Mac Scrivener, BTW …