Jan -- On Tue, Apr 16, 2024, Jan Eden wrote: > I am currently testing the mom and mm macro packages, and noticed that > mom uses sensible defaults for almost anything out of the box. > > Bullet lists (or lists with other static enumerators like dashes), > however, are set with very little space between the enumerator and the > item text. This is not true for ALPHA or DIGIT lists, which are set very > well.
Processing your test file with the lastest mom (2.6_c), the spacing between bullets/dashes and subsequent text looks fine and observes the typographic conventions with which I am familiar. I'm attaching a pdf of the output (I added a dashed list) so you can verfiy it looks the same as what you have been seeing. If not, update to 2.6_c. If mom's default bullet/dash spacing is still, to your eyes, not correct, you change it with the USER argument to LIST. For example, .LIST USER "\[bu]\ " adds a non-stretching wordspace to the bullet. If you want more precise control, e.g. 3 points of space, .LIST USER "\[bu]\*[FWD 3p]" or .LIST USER "\[bu]\h'3p'" The first uses mom's inline escape for forward movements, the second uses groff's native escape for the same thing. The two are equivalent. \[en] can be used if you want dashed lists with extra spacing between the dash and the text. > This is my test file: > > .PAPER A4 > > .TITLE "Some Title" A piece of advice: As a general rule, it is preferable to insert blank lines (visual spacers) into mom text files by putting a period (dot) at the start of the line, like so .PAPER A4 . .TITLE "Some Title" -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca
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