Re: Re: Enumerator spacing in bullet lists with mom

[Jan Eden]

Salut Thomas,

On 2024-04-16 09:13, Thomas Dupond wrote:

> Hello Jan,
> 
> Jan Eden <tech@eden.one> a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am currently testing the mom and mm macro packages, and noticed that
> > mom uses sensible defaults for almost anything out of the box.
> >
> > Bullet lists (or lists with other static enumerators like dashes),
> > however, are set with very little space between the enumerator and the
> > item text. This is not true for ALPHA or DIGIT lists, which are set very
> > well.
> >
> > I wonder if I am doing something wrong – because the spacing looks really
> > bad in an otherwise properly formatted document – and how the spacing can
> > be changed manually (in case I did not do anything wrong).
> >
> > This is my test file:
> >
> > [...]

> You can see what a list should look like thanks to the document
> "mon_premier_doc.pdf" provided with your groff install.
> 
> On my debian system it is present at
> /usr/share/doc/groff/examples/mom/mon_premier_doc.pdf.gz

Thanks – this document displays the same (minimal) spacing I described
above.

> In case you do want to modify the spacing you can follow the documentation:
> 
> - locally at file:///usr/share/doc/groff-base/html/mom/docelement.html#list
> - online at http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/momdoc/docelement.html#list

I did read the documentation on lists, but I only found a <space>
argument to the .ITEM macro, which refers to the vertical spacing
between list elements.

- Jan