I’m a new Backpack user, and I have a few questions that I can’t seem to find in the FAQ nor Help pages.

Where can I use bullets and numbers in text? How do I use them?

I have read through the Textile Quick Reference, which is a nice document, but I am not certain exactly where I can use bullets or numbers: Lists? Notes? In Lists it appears that they are always checklists; they are always auto-created with check boxes. Is this simply a default and it can be changed to other formats? Or are the check boxes hard coded and must stay as they are?

Also, similar questions regarding Notes: How do I use bullets and numbers in Notes? I tried using the coding shown in the Textile Quick Reference but that did not give me bullets; instead it caused all to become BOLD.

Is the Textile Quick Reference just a partial guide and not all codes listed there work in Backpack? Or is more information required?

Thanks!

Jim

To make a bulleted list in a note, you have to have a space between the asterisk and the text. (Same goes for the pound-sign in numbered list.) It really only makes sense to do this in notes; lists have checkboxes and that’s really all you get.

OK – That does help me, believe it or not! So the formatting is only available in Notes, correct? And checkboxes in the Lists is fine too. I wasn’t complaining about this – just wasn’t able to figure out what worked when!

The comment about the spacing helps – that’s why it wasn’t working for me.

Thanks!

Jim

Right, only in notes, or Writeboards. Not lists.

Can you indent bullets?

Not without a custom stylesheet.

Actually you can indent bullets by placing two asterisks in a row instead of one. (At least this works as the second tier of bullets).

Jim

Different formatting issue, though. Underlining doesn’t seem to work – at least not as the Textile Quick Reference explains it. That Reference says to surround the word you wish underline with ”+” signs. However when I try this I just see the + front and back, but no underline.

I ended up just using HTML tags ( <u> and </u> ) and that did work, though that is not listed as a usable format method in the Textile Quick Reference.

Go figure!

Jim