splitting lists

[Jeff Kingston]

In reply to Sim Harbert's mail asking about splitting up lists.

Lists will quite happily split over multiple pages.  What is not possible
is to split one list item, or one display, over two pages.  This is the
leading deficiency of Basser Lout Version 2.05, and it will remain the
leading deficiency until a version is introduced which incorporates the
horizontal galley feature.  I do not plan to do this in the forthcoming
release.

The only workaround I know of is to use a @TaggedList or @WideTaggedList
or @VeryWideTaggedList, and when you get to the long list item that
refuses to break, replace it by a sequence of shorter list items, each
containing one paragraph of the original list item.

What I do myself in these cases is not use a list at all.  For example,
when I set an exam, I don't use

        @NumberedList
        @LI { ... first question ... }
        @LI { ... second question ... }
        ...
        @EndList

Rather I use

        @Heading { Question 1 }
        @LP
        ... first question ...
        @DP
        @Heading { Question 2 }
        @LP
        ... second question ...

and so on.

I should have mentioned above that the extra items of the tagged list
are given empty tags, like this:

        {} @TagItem { ... }

This is why you need a tagged list: it's the only one that allows you
to get an empty tag.

Jeff Kingston