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On 6/4/07, Mike Starr <mikestarr-techwr-l -at- writestarr -dot- com> wrote:
> I can't testify as to whether it's "standard" or not but trying to
> accomplish left-alignment of first-level bullets and numbering in HTML takes
> an act of Congress, several "Hail Marys" and a good act of contrition. The
> default rendering in most browsers for ordered and unordered lists in HTML
> is indented a tad.
>
> <grrr>
>
> Mike
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>
IIRC, the most recent version of WebWorks actually transforms
FrameMaker lists into tables instead of HTML list tags specifically to
get around this issue. (Which I think unnecessarily complicates the
process of designing a transformation if you don't want to use their
default settings, but that's a whole 'nother issue....)
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Until next time...
Kevin Amery
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