I need to riduce my text. Easy problem

[Alberto Massaro]

Hi everyone, sorry for my english.

I need to set up my notes in a simple way. I have some lists that I would like to reduce with + and -. Let me explain with some examples.

i currently use xml:

• <Boy>
  | mick
  | patrick
  | Steave
  </boy>

• <Woman>
  | Erika
  | Giudith
  </woman>

Is there a method without opening and closing <> </> to collapse the lists?
I don’t use notepad to program, but to sort my notes, so I can also change the language to simplify what I said.

[PeterJones]

@Alberto-Massaro ,

Sorry, I guess I don’t quite understand what you want – or rather, I’m not sure why choosing “xml” isn’t sufficient. Clicking on the +/- next to a collapsible section is the way to collapse a single level (or you can use the View > Collapse/Uncollapse Level submenus to affect all levels at the same time.

Are you saying that you don’t actually have XML-like <> around the Boy and Woman, and you still want the ability to collapse? That’s doable with a UDL, but it would take knowing what your file format really looked like to know for sure.

For example, if your file format looked like

* Boy
    | mick
    | patrick
    | steave
end

* Woman
    | Erika
    | Giudith
end

Then you could set up a UDL (user defined language), where yould define * as the start of folding and end as the end of the folding block. (Unfortunately, I don’t know a way to set a blank line as the end of a UDL folding block, sorry.)

If your data looks different than that, then you’ll have to give an example – after tying the example data, select it all and hit the </> toolbar button in the forum, so it goes in black box, like my example data above does

With example data, we might be able to come up with a UDL folding definition that would work for you. But there are limits as to what will and won’t work.