Re: [icon-users] Equations and tables in lists

  • From: ralph_valmai@xxxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:13:14 +0100

In message <7fc121334f.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <b42c20334f.ralph_valmai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           ralph_valmai@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>> If I am writing examination papers, everything after the heading is in
>> a list, the items of which are the questions numbers, 1, 2, 3 etc.
> 
> This is not exactly the idea of lists. You may want to consider using
> sections instead. If you define a section style with auto-numbering
> and a side heading it looks exactly like the lists you have been using
> up to now but in a section you can have any contents you like, most
> notably any number of paragraphs and displayed equations and you can
> have subsections in the same way as you currently use sublists.

Ah! Thank you for that, Martin. A little lateral thinking was 
obviously needed. That's a great help.

But does the question still remain? It doesn't seem too unreasonable 
that a list should be able to contain anything.

Thanks,

Ralph

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