Question

Why does this work?

(I went back to the original which I had inadvertently trimmed on pasting into this question. My fault). -- VickiBrown - Updated 29 Sep 2008

   * Name: 
   * Backyard Login: 
   * Email: 


__Personal Preferences (details in %TWIKIWEB%.TWikiVariables)__
   * Horizontal size of text edit box:
      * Set EDITBOXWIDTH = 80
   * Vertical size of text edit box:
      * Set EDITBOXHEIGHT = 40
   * Optionally write protect your home page: (set it to your %TWIKIWEB%.WikiName)
      * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = 

__Related topics__
   * %TWIKIWEB%.%WIKIPREFSTOPIC% has site-level preferences of %WIKITOOLNAME%.
   * %WEBPREFSTOPIC% has preferences of the %WIKITOOLNAME%.%WEB% web.
   * %WIKIUSERSTOPIC% has a list of other TWiki users.

   * foo
      * foo
         * foo

The three "Sets" are not "properly" indented. See the "foo" set at the bottom for comparison. Use Raw View to compare.

Yet, I see bullets.

• Name:
• Backyard Login:
• Email:

Personal Preferences (details in TWikiVariables)

• Horizontal size of text edit box:
  • Set EDITBOXWIDTH = 80
• Vertical size of text edit box:
  • Set EDITBOXHEIGHT = 40
• Optionally write protect your home page: (set it to your WikiName)
  • Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE =

Related topics

• TWikiPreferences has site-level preferences of TWiki.
• WebPreferences has preferences of the TWiki.Support web.
• TWikiUsers has a list of other TWiki users.

• foo
  • foo
    • foo

Environment

-- VickiBrown - 25 Sep 2008

Answer

If you answer a question - or have a question you asked answered by someone - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status is in a drop-down list below the edit box.

The bullet syntax is "multiple of three spaces followed by an asterisc" so

• The bullet is in column 4
  • The bullet is in column 7
    • The bullet is in column 10

is the normal behavior.

* at column 17 won't work

-- RafaelAlvarez - 25 Sep 2008

No. Good answer, but no.

The verbatim looks acceptable. The asterisks appear to line up.

But if you do a raw view, they don't.

And the answer seems to be - those are tab-idented *'s.

(I still don't understand why they work, though. tabs??)

-- VickiBrown - 29 Sep 2008

hmm... weird, i didn't saw that.. Anyway, for compatibility with older TWiki versions a tab is the same as three spaces, but the usage is deprecated and not encouraged. So tab+3 spaces+* is the same as 6 spaces+*

-- RafaelAlvarez - 29 Sep 2008

weird. I've never seen anyone (except one co-worker we all agreed was strange) treat 3 spaces as equivalent to a tab.

-- VickiBrown - 21 Oct 2008

Ah, tabs. A blast from the past. Gotta wonder why we don't replace them on save with 3 spaces...

-- MartinCleaver - 22 Oct 2008