Tighten up bullet indentation for list items

[heydamianc]

Currently, nested lists are indented by the default tab spacing. If you think about a program like MS Word or Apple Pages, they support tab stops that you can manipulate in the ruler of the program. Core text has this same functionality and I would have liked to integrate it into my solution to rendering the text. However, UITextView does not support attributes at this level. I would like to have the bullets rendered just under the start of the text by default, and it seems I have no way of controlling this in UITextView in a way that is compatible with the BPMarkdownView.

I have compromised and settled on rendering the bullets like the following:

I would like to change this, however. I asked if it's possible on the Core Text mailing list, and hopefully they can assist. I will leave this open until I know more information.

Reference: http://osdir.com/ml/general/2013-03/msg38592.html

[heydamianc]

I haven't gotten any feedback from the mailing lists, so I asked in the Apple Developer Forums and Stack Overflow:

• https://devforums.apple.com/thread/182628
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15510936/how-do-i-add-tab-stops-to-an-nsattributedstring-and-display-in-a-uitextview

[heydamianc]

What I was attempting to do is not currently possible on iOS. I am closing this enhancement request.