roman numeral list type, hanging indent, and custom tab stops (for Text)

[lionel.kai]

It's nice to see multi-level lists available in Text and I'm looking forward to trying it out on a future project to see if it's finally worth doing our general notes within Revit (instead of linking in an AutoCAD dwg). However, we often have 4 levels in our general notes, so we use roman numerals for the last (requires a workaround in AutoCAD: bullets off, manual numbering, followed by space and tab).

Control over hanging indent may or may not be needed, depending on what other features would be added.

Also, we would need custom tab stops (with leaders would be even better!) to avoid having to tab multiple times to get the right-hand side to line up (or split the text into multiple overlapping columns that need to be manually aligned with line returns).

Wouldn't it be nice if Revit actually surpassed AutoCAD in text-handling capabilities by adding roman numeral lists and tabs w/ leaders?

[rickt]

Hanging indents would be an awesome improvement.

[SeanSpence]

Agreed, I'm just diving into updating the general notes with the new 2017 features now. The issue as you described is there is no roman numerals

The work around I am playing with is to add bullets in front. This works allowing the list to stay sequential. Its only a matter of time though before another engineer using the standard general notes says,,, "hey. this Revit thing is crap why do we have bullets here".

having nothing in front would also be fine BUT.... there isn't a way to have nothing in the middle of a list. the list restarts when broken by nothing/ manual input (soft return shift+enter can only be used once) . If the "increment list value"was available in indented lists this would solve the problem or at least create a work around. seems you have to create a whole new text box to be able to use the "increment list value" function.

[SeanSpence]

I feel like a spoiled child who has been begging for candy for the last 7 years and when given the candy responds... BUT I WANT MORE...

Screw it

WE WANT MORE! 🙂

[lionel.kai]

@SeanSpence Are you only using three levels (no capital letters)? Or are you using the capitals for the section titles ("DESIGN CRITERIA", etc.)? If so, I'd suggest just showing titles underlined so you can use capitals, numbers, and lowercase (no roman numerals required). Our problem is that we have 4 levels NOT including titles.  We've considered trying to rework our notes to not require the 4th level, but Revit text isn't QUITE as polished as we'd like it to be anyway (and having one system/procedure for general notes DOES have its benefits).

Also, I'm not seeing the behavior you show (where the lettering resets). Maybe it's been fixed in a point release? In the example below, everything except the roman numerals are live lists (I tried to replicate your formatting):

After taking another look at this, maybe Revit notes would be more feasible than I'd first thought. I might wind up doing a test...

[SeanSpence]

We are making the jump to an excel based general notes and using Sticky to bring them in. Advantage to this is that its editable from outside of Revit and compatible in multiple design software applications. Revit is the weak link unfortunately.