Alignment of digit numbers in a List

I don't understand what you want ?

Here, I get:



Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 18 juin 2010 10:11:46

Yvan

The O.P. wants to right/decimal align the list numbers.

I've tried to find a way to do this but can't insert the necessary tab in front of the numbers in a list.

This can only be done manually, not with the list style.

Peter

Make a request to Apple:

+Menu > Pages > Provide Pages Feedback+

Peter

I look at your two examples.
They aren 't using list format but simply tabs.

You may achieve that with Pages :



I inserted a tab char before the numbers,
a tab between a number and the text on the right.
I define a 'numerical tab stop ' and a standard tab stop
and bingo, I got the wanted result.

I was surprised because I thought that it will not behave correctly with numbers + a period because here in France this kind of entry isn't a number.
It works.
The complete string 123. is exactly on the left of the decimal tab stop.
If I put a decimal comma after the digits,
the digits are on the left of the tab stop, the comma is on its right.
I don't know what you will get on an English system.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 19 juin 2010 11:23:28

Yvan

Is that example using manual tabbing or did you manage to achieve it with *List Styles* ?

You have not made that clear.

Peter

The examples pointed by the OP where not using list styles so, I applied the same scheme.
I thought that it was clear because there is no tab between the number and the text when we apply 'list style'.
The described tab stops aren't deeply buried on the screenshot 😉
So to be more precise :
no list style,
just tab_stops correctly defined.

When a tool doesn't behave as we want, it's often efficient to use an other one.

Of course, this doesn't means that it's useless to post a feed back to Apple but it's a clean way to get the wanted result.
From my point of view, it's easier than inserting an 'extraneous margin' for the first nine items because this scheme requires that we reduce the space between the number and the text.

And to be honest (one more time) I think that we will not see a change on this specific point of the lists behaviour.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 20 juin 2010 20:54:40

The mis-alignment of numeric lists is a disgrace in a modern word processor. Apple really needs to add an option for customizing the alignment of numbers in a numbered list.

The problem is aggravated by the fact that when manually creating a numbered list they are automatically recognized and changed to the numbered list style. You can only create one manually if you first go to preferences and turn off the automatic detection of number lists.

Apple please fix this in the next release of Pages. In my opinion Pages numbered lists are broken and useless until this is corrected.

Asking something here is perfectly useless.

Use the dedicated channel :
_Go to "Provide Pages Feedback" in the "Pages" menu_, describe what you wish.
Then, cross your fingers, and wait _at least_ for iWork'11 😉

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 9 août 2010 23:30:40