Incremental nested lists in rmarkdown

Question

I\'ve been working in RMarkdown to make some slide sets, and have discovered odd behavior with respect to nested lists and mixing of list types. The following short presenta

Answer 1

As @Alex mentioned you have to give it 4 spaces. If you don't want to worry about this in the future you can set the tab preset to be 4 spaces. the solution will be

*something <space><space><space><space>+ Other thing

Answer 2

Worked when I gave 2 tabs, so:

1. This
<tab><tab>+ Should work

Answer 3

I was having the same problem and found a solution that worked. When making nested lists without incremental reveal, you need to add four spaces for sub-bullets. When making lists with incremental reveal, you need to add one space after >. So, when making sub-bullets with incremental reveal, you need five spaces between > and - (one for the incremental syntax, and four for the nested list syntax).

So, a regular list with incremental reveal would look like this:

><space>- Point 1
><space>- Point 2

If you want to add sub-bullets, this will not work:

><space>- Point 1
><space><space><space><space>- Sub-bullet
><space>- Point 2

But this will work:

><space>- Point 1
><space><space><space><space><space>- Sub-bullet
><space>- Point 2

Hope this is helpful/readable!

Answer 4

Try inserting four leading spaces. From the documentation (emphasis mine):

The four-space rule

A list item may contain multiple paragraphs and other block-level content. However, subsequent paragraphs must be preceded by a blank line and indented four spaces or a tab. The list will look better if the first paragraph is aligned with the rest:

The inconsistency to do with number of tabs may be due to how many spaces are inserted by default by Rstudio.