newbie help with lists

[Christin Wixson]

Hi all, TiddlyWiki first timer here.  I’m a librarian with close to no computer background.  I’m *super excited* to create a digital garden, and I really want to use TiddlyWiki but am also worried that I might not have the necessary technical knowledge.

I’m only a few tiddlers deep in my experiment, but I’ve found that when I use the bullets and numbers buttons in the editor toolbar, they don’t render.  (When I manually add in the html list tags it renders ok, but I’m hoping there’s a way I don’t have to do that every time.)
For example when I make some lists using the buttons in the editor toolbar, the text looks like this:

and it displays like this:


All I’ve done so far is download the empty copy of TiddlyWiki from the GettingStarted tiddler.  I have not installed any plugins. I’m working on a macbook and opening the file in an up to date version Firefox, (but I see the same problem in Chrome).

I read a forum thread from October 3, where someone had a similar problem, but I don’t see a “Show Bullets & Numbers checkbox” anywhere in my control panel, and I tried creating the new tiddler suggested there to no avail.

Thanks in advance for your kindness to a total newbie.

[strikke...@gmail.com]

Welcome!

I hope a screenshot will do.

Birthe

[Álvaro]

As Birthe shows you, TW needs a extra line break, even between paragraphs.

[Christin Wixson]

Alvaro and Birthe, thank you!  You guys are delightful :)