Hi,
Leonard Avery Randall <leonard.a.rand...@gmail.com> writes:
> Guido Van Hoecke wrote:
>
>> I am a bit confused about indentation in the example at node
>> '2.7 Plain Lists' in the Org info file:
>>
>> [quote]
>> ** Lord of the Rings
>> My favorite scenes are (in this order)
>> 1. The attack of the Rohirrim
>> 2. Eowyn's fight with the witch king
>> + this was already my favorite scene in the book
>> + I really like Miranda Otto.
>> 3. Peter Jackson being shot by Legolas
>> - on DVD only
>> He makes a really funny face when it happens.
>> But in the end, no individual scenes matter but the film as a whole.
>> Important actors in this film are:
>> - Elijah Wood :: He plays Frodo
>> - Sean Austin :: He plays Sam, Frodo's friend. I still remember
>> him very well from his role as Mikey Walsh in The Goonies.
>> [unquote]
>>
>>
>> The last line aligns the word 'him' directly under 'Sean', which
>> is what I expect.
>>
>> The 'He makes a really...' sentence is aligned under the list hyphen,
>> rather than under 'on DVD...'
>>
>> Is this not inconsistent? I'd expect it to be indented two extra
>> positions to the right, similar to the last sentence.
>
> I believe the reason for the disparity is that 'He makes a really
> funny face', is supposed to be associated with 'Peter Jackson being
> shot by legolas' rather than 'on DVD only'. I believe the example is
> supposed to show that list items can contain both subsidiary lists and
> whole paragraphs. If the paragraph were supposed to be associated with
> the lower level list item it would be indented as you expected.
How does org decide that 'He makes a really...' is not associated with
the current list item? What keystrokes are required to produce this
alignment or the one with the extra indentation?
Guido
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