Btukfyl

There is a fairly typical layout style in technical manual in which headings are numbered and left justified. The text then is indented about 1cm so that it appears as if there is a larger left margin, and the numbers from the headings extending into this margin. I got the basic support from a package called parskip which gets me 95% of the way there.

I shifted the paragraphs over using setlength{leftskip}{1cm}

I want to have bullets, this is the challenge. The bullets should be slightly more indented than the paragraphs. I succeeded in getting this by the following left margin settings (note that the top level has an extra 1cm to make it fall under the paragraph):

usepackage{enumitem}

setlist[itemize,1]{leftmargin=1.4cm}

setlist[itemize,2]{leftmargin=0.5cm}

setlist[itemize,3]{leftmargin=0.5cm}

This looks like this:

the problem is that I also have boxes called "notes" which contain text, and also contain bullets. When used in a note, I DON'T want the extra 1cm shift over. Note in this example how the bullets are too far indented:

I need to define bullets in such a way that they work both in the main text, and the note boxes.

I am thinking there might be a better way to do this: define the left and right margin to be the edges of the text area, and change the heading to "outdent" into that space, outside of the text area. I am afraid my command of just how the various dimension effect other dimensions is not good enough to figure out how to do this, or even to know whether that is a good approach. Suggestions?

I am including a complete example below, with several sections, text, and bullet sections:

documentclass[letterpaper,11pt,pagesize=pdftex,openright,headings=twolinechapter,chapterprefix=true]{scrbook}



usepackage{graphicx}

usepackage{wrapfig}

usepackage[table]{xcolor}

usepackage{makeidx}

usepackage{fontspec}

usepackage{longtable}

usepackage{nameref}





setmainfont[Ligatures={Common,TeX}, Numbers={OldStyle}]{Arial}

addtokomafont{footnote}{footnotesizefontspec[Ligatures=TeX]{Arial}}

deffootnote{1.5em}{1em}{% modified example from page 83

  makebox[1.5em][l]{textsuperscript{thefootnotemark}}}





makeindex



usepackage[inner=1in,outer=1in,top=1.0in, bottom=1.0in, footnotesep=.4in]{geometry}





%Page size settings

pdfpagewidth=paperwidth

pdfpageheight=paperheight



%parskip gives us outdented headers with numbers, no indent on paragraphs

%and a little vertical space between paragraphs.

usepackage{parskip}

setlength{leftskip}{1cm}



setlength{emergencystretch}{15pt}





%control whether extra vertical space is distributed between paragraphs

%either raggedbottom or flushbottom

raggedbottom



usepackage{hyperref}

hypersetup{

    colorlinks,

    citecolor=black,

    filecolor=black,

    linkcolor=purple,

    urlcolor=black

}



usepackage{scrhack}

usepackage{lineno}

usepackage{listings}





%TABLES

%make more space between lines

renewcommand{arraystretch}{1.3}



renewcommand{labelitemi}{textbullet}

renewcommand{labelitemii}{textbullet}

renewcommand{labelitemiii}{textbullet}



usepackage{enumitem}

setlist[itemize,1]{leftmargin=1.4cm}

setlist[itemize,2]{leftmargin=0.5cm}

setlist[itemize,3]{leftmargin=0.5cm}

setlist[enumerate,1]{leftmargin=1.4cm}

setlist[enumerate,2]{leftmargin=0.5cm}

setlist[enumerate,3]{leftmargin=0.5cm}







usepackage{tcolorbox}   

colorlet{notecolor}{gray!25}



newenvironment{note}%

   {begin{tcolorbox}[colframe=notecolor,width=0.94textwidth,left=1pt,right=1pt] Note: }%

   {end{tcolorbox}} 





begin{document}



frontmatter



mainmatter



chapter{This is a chapter heading}



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section{Section Heading}



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subsection{Subsection Heading}



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begin{itemize}



item first item



item second item



begin{itemize}



item first nested



item second nested



end{itemize}



item third item



end{itemize}



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subsection{This is the second subsection}



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begin{note}



This is a note and below some bullets



begin{itemize}



item first item



item second item



begin{itemize}



item first nested



item second nested



end{itemize}



item third item



end{itemize}



end{note}





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end{document}