A problem with the List function?

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I don’t use the List function often. Both times I’ve used it, my first item vanished. Let me see if I’m doing right:
[ul]
[li]Second, I type in the first item, and click OK.[/li][li]Third, I type in the second item, click OK.[/li][li]Fourth, I type in the third item. Click OK.[/li][li]Fifth, I click OK with the prompt box empty, and the list comes up in the message box.[/li][/ul]
Yup, it happened again. The first item was, "First, I click on the “list with bullets” icon. When the list came up, it was gone. What did I do wrong?

Thanks.

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I think that, if you use the bullet-list icon in the reply form, you need to click on it once with either a blank field, 1, or A, depending on whether you want a bulleted, numbered, or alphabetically “numbered” list, prior to typing your first item.

I’ve found it to be much simpler to simply manually code the list:
[ul][li]Type [ list ] (without the spaces) – or list=1 or list=A inside the brackets if you want numbering[/li][li]Type [ * ] without the spaces, hit return, and repeat as needed to create your list[/li][li]Acknowledge the wisdom of OpalCat, of course :)[/li][li]Type the close-code [ /list ] (again without the spaces)[/ul][/li]
I created the above list explaining how to do it manually, manually, without recourse to the little list-making dialog boxes.

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The second step in that list should, of course, include typing in the substantive content of the list after the bracketed asterisk for each entry in the list! :o

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Okay, I’ll try the first method:
[ul]
[li]First item.[/li][li]Second item.[/li][li]Roman numeral III.[/li][/ul]
Hey, that worked! Thank you, Polycarp. Oh, and Og bless Opal. I got 3 items, but bless her anyway. :wink:

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My pleasure, AskNott!

Just out of curiosity…

Is there a term to describe lists of the form A. the first item, B. the second item, C. the third item…? “Alphabetically ‘numbered’” was the best I could come up with on short notice, but there’s got to be proper terminology for it. (“Outline format” is of course hierarchical, where main entries I and II have subsets A and B, which in turn may have infrasubsets 1 and 2…, so that’s not it.)