Minor Description
Right now the options for NumberdList and BulletedList in TextPane are relatively limited. Numerous improvements could be made.
Numbered List
- options for punctuation: none, period, right paren after, parens around, right bracket after, brackets around, right brace after, braces around, hyphen
- option for number of spaces after: zero, 1 (default), 2, or tab
- option to specify a leading word (such as "Chapter", "Section", or "Appendix", or the section, paragraph characters (§ or ❡)
- option for cascading (so that subsequent indent levels have 1. then 1.1, then 1.1.1 (requires knowledge of hierarchy)
- option for word only (so that each level has "Section", "Heading", "Paragraph", etc.
Bulleted List
- there are a great variety of dingbats available in Unicode, such as asterisks, many more bullet circles, squares, stars, etc.
- image bullets could be supported, where you include a small gif, png, bmp, whatever
- options for spacing as above
In general you could specify a separate font size for these, in order to emphasize or make more (or less) prominent.
Perhaps even more flexibility could be added once these basic improvements are implemented. But, I think these cover the vast majority of use-cases from word-processing apps currently available.