modiophile

Thanks for the file!
For proper formatting of bulleted lists, the bullet should be closer to the text than the left margin. You'll actually want the First Line Inedent to be more than half the Left Indent in order to achieve that. My assertion that the First Line Indent must be half or less of the Left Indent position was wrong.
Here are my updated steps:

 
NOTE: IF you set the First Line Indent first, AD will automatically specify the Left Indent for you!
If anybody from Affinity is reading this thread, it shouldn't be this difficult to properly format bulleted lists! I read somewhere that a Bulleted List text style is a feature that has been noted.

This seems to correspond with certain fonts. I was having the same issue with Gotham. Switched to another font and it worked.
What could be causing that to happen?

Hi bboysupaman,
please have a look at my video linked below (Clipping_vs_Masking.mov).
In (A.) the pink rectangle (or rather square) gets clipped to the boundaries (path) of the blue triangle, and this is done by making the rectangle a child of the triangle in the layers list. This is called "layer clipping".
In (B.) the rectangle acts as a mask applied to the triangle, and this is done by dragging the thumbnail of the rectangle directly onto the thumbnail of the triangle in the layers list. (Note the differences between the blue highlight bars appearing while the list entries are dragged to their respective positions.) Now it is not the rectangle that gets clipped to the boundaries of the triangle, but the rectangle clips (or cuts) parts of the triangle. This is called "creating a vector mask".
Hope you get the difference …
Kind regards, Alex 
 

Clipping_vs_Masking.mov  

 

+1 Zeplin is integral to our workflow

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@modiophile
Which version of Designer & which OS (Mac or PC) are you using?
 
In your screenshot, it looks like both the Left Indent & First Line Indent are set to the same value (0.118"). Apparently, at least on Macs the First Line Indent is automatically (& annoyingly!) set to the same value that you enter for the Left Indent, but you can reset the First Line Indent to zero afterward to fix that.
 
Also, if you have already entered text & it spans more than one paragraph, make sure all the paragraphs are selected when you set or change values in the Paragraph panel, or those values will only apply to the currently selected paragraph.