Multi-level Bullet List Blues

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thudthwacker

I'm using Scribus 1.6.1 on Ubuntu, and am having a confusing time trying to set up a multi-level set of bullet lists.
I've set up 3 Paragraph styles:

The first is Bullet, based on Default Paragraph; under Properties>Tabs and Indentations, I've got 0 for first line indent and whole paragraph indent.  Paragraph Effects has "bullet list" and "auto-indent" checked.

Second level is Bullet-2, based on Bullet; Properties>Tabs and Indentations has 0.2 for first line indent and whole paragraph indent.  Paragraph Effects has "bullet list" and "auto-indent".

Third level is Bullet-3, based on Bullet-2; Properties>Tabs and Indentations has 0.3 for first line and whole paragraph.  Effects again has "bullet list" and "auto-indent".

When I set up a text frame with Bullet, Bullet-2, and Bullet-3 styles applied, Bullet comes out exactly as I would want: bullet glyph, and a text block next to it (multiple lines of text lined up so they all start in the same column).  Bullet-2 is indented from Bullet, but subsequent lines of text are lined up under the bullet glyph, rather than the start of the first line's text.  Bullet-3 is indented from Bullet-2, but subsequent lines of text line up to the *left* of the bullet glyph.

It seems pretty clear that I'm completely misunderstanding something, but I've got no clue what.  Any suggestions would be very much welcome.  (I'm fairly new to Scribus, in case that wasn't pretty obvious.)

Nermander

I think what you want is negative indent for the first line?

prcek

For me in 1.6.4 it works in the way that whole paragraph indent moves paragraph to the right and first line indent defines distance from this position. So the first line is indented by (paragraph_indent + first_line_indent).

I've tried your settings (if I understand it correctly) and got a bad result for the second paragraph as well.



What works for me is leaving First line indent set to 0

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thudthwacker

Thanks very, very much for going to so much effort to troubleshoot my problem.  Once you helped orient me as to what the various settings were doing (and demonstrate that they *do* work), I was able to find the core of my problem: I have spacing between the bullet glyph and the start of the text, and it was as large as some of my indents.  And some of the differences in bullet list indents were too small, compared to other set spacings.  Which threw everything off, as there wasn't enough space to the left of the first line to put the bullet glyph to the left of it.

Which is a very long ramble.  tl;dr: I have everything laid out so it looks right, and offer again my thanks for your assistance.