Talk:Editing Wikitext/Indents and Lists

First line indent
Is it possible in MediaWiki to set paragraphs to indent the first line, like traditional book paragraph layouts?ElectricRay (discuss • contribs) 22:50, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Ordered lists
How are ordered lists of the letter variant put in? a. b. etc...

Thanks

Sorry, I did not realise that there was a note here. Use HTML coding for it instead of wikitext- the page does not mind the use of HTML - the following makes a list with lower case labels stating from the second letter of the alphabet... that is 'b'. Obviously 'a' would be the default when start is not specified. Some of these look better in monospaced fonts... Thanks for the question; I will update the work... Armchair 10 Oct 08.

 This is the first item for lower case alpha starting with 'b'.  This is the second item.  This is the last. 

With type = 1 and start = 432 we obtain:  This is the first item for lower case alpha starting with 'b'.  This is the second item.  This is the last. 

With type = a and start = 2 we obtain:  This is the first item for lower case alpha starting with 'b'.  This is the second item.  This is the last. 

With type = A and start = 1 we obtain:   This is the first item of upper case starting with A.  This is the second item.  This is the last. </ol>

With type = i and ''start = 3 we obtain: <li> This is the first lower case roman item starting with iii. <li> This is the second item. <li> This is the last. </ol>

With type = I and start = 2'' <ol type="I" start=2> <li> This is the first uppercase roman item starting with II. <li> This is the second item. <li> This is the last. </ol>

See the link Lists in HTML for the full details... in particular look at 'type' and 'start'.

Multiple paragraphs in the same list item
Is it possible to achieve this in wikicode?

<ol> <li> Para one Para two </li> <li>...</li> </ol> --90.198.71.9 (talk) 10:32, 3 December 2008 (UTC)