Basic Working Procedures > Text Formatting and Styles

In Help & Manual the system for handling and formatting numbered and bulleted lists is separate from the dynamic styles. You have extensive control over list formatting and appearance and you can customize your list definitions, but you cannot create style definitions for lists and include them in the styles accessed with Format > Edit Styles.

This chapter describes how to use numbered and bulleted lists and how to change their appearance.

List definitions are not dynamic styles

It is important to understand that list definitions are not dynamic styles. They are not part of Help & Manual's dynamic styles system. This means you cannot create dynamic list styles that change all linked lists when you change the style definition.

This is much less of a restriction than it sounds, however. List definitions only define the bullet character, the numbering format and the levels for numbered lists using outline numbering. The appearance of the text in a list paragraph is still fully controlled by the dynamic style attached to the text or paragraph that is part of the list.

List indents are a special case. See Adjusting list indents for more details.