bullet list text overlapping.

[Ousy]

Hi guys can anybody hint me towards the solution to this problem im having with bullet lists. please see picture.

[firstdefence]

Paragraph leading is probably the cause

[Ousy]

Hi firstdefence,

Thank you for your response. I tried to play around with the paragraph leading setting and it changes nothing. i made sure that the bullet list wasn't set to a style too but still i cant fix it. any ideas?

[Ousy]

ok i adjusted "leading override" and "spacing after" and it solved the problem. many thanks for hinting me in the right direction!

[firstdefence]

1 hour ago, Ousy said:

ok i adjusted "leading override" and "spacing after" and it solved the problem. many thanks for hinting me in the right direction!

You're welcome.

[thomaso]

2 hours ago, Ousy said:

ok i adjusted "leading override" and "spacing after" and it solved the problem.

Your screenshot seems to show another problem: The missing indent for the second text lines. (Unfortunately, this does not get set automatically when bullets get activated – although the app knows the required indent from its bullets tabstop setting).

[prophet]

5 hours ago, thomaso said:

indent for the second text lines

I'm a fan using the "indent to here" hidden character ( Cmd + \ ) rather than futzing about with insets and tab stops.

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, prophet said:

I'm a fan using the "indent to here" hidden character ( Cmd + \ ) rather than futzing about with insets and tab stops.

How do you create indents with the special character in multiple paragraphs? Do you paste it at every spot? And, if added multiple times in a document, how do you adjust it for the entire document if wanted?

For a bullet list I would prefer the indent as paragraph attribute which can get saved with a text style. Nevertheless, this annoying "futzing" should not be demanded by Serif or Affinity: The required indent options could easily appear in the Bullet and Numbering interface … instead of forcing the user to jump around unnecessarily.

Of course, it would not replace the indent paragraph style settings in "Spacing" but would rather be auto-synchronized with those. – Simply doing things differently than others is not always a good idea.