This is really a LeTeX question (but LaTeX on FC5 :-).
I'm trying to create a bulleted outline that goes deeper than six levels. The LeTeX "list" environment only lets you go to six levels. I've failed to find any LaTeX packages that extend this or define a new environment that is of arbitary depth.
Do any of you know of a solution, short of just "hand indenting" the items? Note: the items in the list must have "bullets" associated with them that are different for different levels.
Thanks Dean
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Dean S. Messing wrote:
I'm trying to create a bulleted outline that goes deeper than six levels. The LeTeX "list" environment only lets
That might be your first mistake, but it probably had predecessors.
you go to six levels. I've failed to find any LaTeX packages that extend this or define a new environment that is of arbitary depth.
There might be a way to do it by lying about how deep you are. There might not be. My recollection is that there is a separate of variables for each level.
Do any of you know of a solution, short of just "hand indenting" the items? Note: the items in the list must have "bullets" associated with them that are different for different levels.
Since the package has only so many kinds of bullets, you will need a way to specify your own. Maybe you can get rid of the package bullets and begin each item with something that effectively becomes the bullet.
Michael Hennebry wrote: : > I'm trying to create a bulleted outline that goes deeper : > than six levels. The LeTeX "list" environment only lets : : That might be your first mistake, but it probably had predecessors.
Not sure what the mistake would be. All "itemized" environments in LaTeX ("enumerate", "itemize", "description") are built on the primary "list" env. Unfortunately they natively have even fewer levels (4), but that can be tweeked, I think. Until you run up against the hard limit of 6, that is.
: > you go to six levels. I've failed to find any LaTeX : > packages that extend this or define a new environment that : > is of arbitary depth. : : There might be a way to do it by lying about how deep you are. : There might not be. : My recollection is that there is a separate of variables for each level.
From my reading, the "six deep" rule is fundamental to the
implementation of the "list" env in LaTeX and cannot be changed short of a re-write.
: > Do any of you know of a solution, short of just "hand : > indenting" the items? Note: the items in the list must : > have "bullets" associated with them that are different : > for different levels. : : Since the package has only so many kinds of bullets, : you will need a way to specify your own. : Maybe you can get rid of the package bullets : and begin each item with something that effectively becomes the bullet.
It isn't the number of bullets that is the problem. It fact there is a LaTeX package called "pifont" that lets you choose from a bazillion different "bullets" at each level. But, it too, ends up using the primitive "list" env. in its internal implementation. So after six levels it gives an error message like "nesting level too deep".
The solution requires a package independent of "list" and that is _way_ beyond my LaTeX capabilities.
That's what I'm hoping (against hope) that someone can point me too.
Dean
Michael A. Peters wrote: : I would try on comp.text.tex
That was the first thing I did (on Friday). Zero responses so far. So I thought I'd throw a line into a different place in the pond.
Dean S. Messing wrote:
This is really a LeTeX question (but LaTeX on FC5 :-).
I'm trying to create a bulleted outline that goes deeper than six levels. The LeTeX "list" environment only lets you go to six levels. I've failed to find any LaTeX packages that extend this or define a new environment that is of arbitary depth.
Do any of you know of a solution, short of just "hand indenting" the items? Note: the items in the list must have "bullets" associated with them that are different for different levels.
Thanks Dean
Dean,
Perhaps this FAQ entry will help (to at least clarify the nature of the problem):
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=toodeep
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
Marc Schwartz wrote:
Dean Messing wrote:
This is really a LeTeX question (but LaTeX on FC5 :-).
I'm trying to create a bulleted outline that goes deeper than six levels. The LeTeX "list" environment only lets you go to six levels. I've failed to find any LaTeX packages that extend this or define a new environment that is of arbitary depth.
Do any of you know of a solution, short of just "hand indenting" the items? Note: the items in the list must have "bullets" associated with them that are different for different levels.
Dean,
Perhaps this FAQ entry will help (to at least clarify the nature of the problem):
Thanks Marc. I saw this while doing my initial search for a solution.
Turns out that in the mean time, a couple of LaTeX wizards on comp.text.tex answered my plea. One (Ulrich M. Schwartz) even cobbled together a primitive environment (called "infilist") that might work.
Very kind of them both, I must say.
Dean
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