X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1796" "Tue" " 1" "February" "1994" "14:31:13" "LCL" "Mike Piff" "M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk" "<199402011534.AA17958@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de>" "51" "list environment" "^Date:" nil nil "2" "1994020114:31:13" "list environment" nil nil]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA24009; Tue, 1 Feb 94 16:35:14 +0100 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA10068; Tue, 1 Feb 94 16:34:12 +0100 Received: from tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de with SMTP id AA17958 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4(mail.m4[1.12]) for <@MAIL.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE:Schoepf@SC.ZIB-BERLIN.DE>); Tue, 1 Feb 1994 16:34:09 +0100 Message-Id: <199402011534.AA17958@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de> Received: from TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE by tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7695; Tue, 01 Feb 94 16:33:15 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin MAILER@DHDURZ1) by TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 7694; Tue, 1 Feb 1994 16:33:15 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin LISTSERV@DHDURZ1) by VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 7798; Tue, 1 Feb 1994 16:32:50 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 14:31:13 LCL From: Mike Piff Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: list environment Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1366 Has any work been done on the LaTeX list environment for LaTeX-3? This is such a fundamental structure that I feel it should be high on the list(?) of priorities. The main problems I face with it are to do with the lack of flexibility built into the environments based on it. For instance, there are several ways that enumerated environments could be formatted. Some of these I illustrate below, all of which are in common use here for various applications. 1 text text text ............... standard text text text ............... (i) text text text ........... text text text ........... 2 text text text ........... always wrap to LH margin text text text ........... (i) text text text ........... text text text ........... (a) text text text ........... text text text ........... (ii)(a) text text text ........... text text text ........... 3 text text text ........... always wrap to below \item marker text text text ........... (i) text text text ........... text text text ........... (a) text text text ........... text text text ........... (ii) (a) text text text ........... text text text ........... and many more. Then there is the interaction between two lists, which just produces a mess at present: Theorem 1 1 text text text ........... 2 text text text ........... There is no built-in control of the large space produced when one list starts with another list. Mike %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Dr M J Piff, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of %% %% Sheffield, UK. e-mail: M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%