# How to Put Sublists into Docstrings?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-put-sublists-into-docstrings/57843
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** package, documentation
**Created:** [March 24, 2021, 3:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-put-sublists-into-docstrings/57843 "2021-03-24T03:49:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2021, 3:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-put-sublists-into-docstrings/57843/1 "2021-03-24T03:49:31Z")
Hi all,
I was reviewing a PR recently and was trying to correct a small error in their docstring. Here is the docstring:
```julia
"""
latex(text::LaTeXString, pos::Point, object::Symbol; valign::Symbol = :top, halign::Symbol = :left)
Add the latex string `text` to the top left corner of the LaTeX path.
Can be added to `Luxor.jl` graphics via [`Video`](@ref).
**NOTES:**
- **This only works if `tex2svg` is installed.**
It can be installed using the following command (you may have to prefix this command with `sudo` depending on your installation):
npm install -g mathjax-node-cli
- **The `latex` method must be called from within an [`Object`](@ref).**
# Arguments
- `text::LaTeXString`: a LaTeX string to render.
- `pos::Point`: position of the upper left corner of the latex text. Default: `O`
- can be written as `x, y` instead of `Point(x, y)`
- `object::Symbol`: graphics objects defined by `Luxor.jl`. Default `:stroke`.
- `:stroke` - Draws the latex string on the canvas. For more info check `Luxor.strokepath`
- `:path` - Creates the path of the latex string but does not render it to the canvas.
```
What I was expecting by creating sublists in the Arguments section, the bullets would be indented neatly like this:
* * *
# Arguments
- `text::LaTeXString`: a LaTeX string to render.
- `pos::Point`: position of the upper left corner of the latex text. Default: `O`
- can be written as `x, y` instead of `Point(x, y)`
- `object::Symbol`: graphics objects defined by `Luxor.jl`. Default `:stroke`.
- `:stroke` - Draws the latex string on the canvas. For more info check `Luxor.strokepath`
- `:path` - Creates the path of the latex string but does not render it to the canvas.
* * *
Instead, the rendered docstring looks like this:
As one can see, the bullet for `pos` now contains the sub-bullet and the `stroke` and `path` sub-bullets were not rendered. Could anyone explain or help me figure out why this Markdown syntax does not work in docstrings?
Thank you!
~ tcp 🌳
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2021, 7:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-put-sublists-into-docstrings/57843/2 "2021-03-24T07:23:12Z")
This looks like a bug. If you don’t get a reply here, please check existing issues and open one if necessary.
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### Author:  [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2021, 9:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-put-sublists-into-docstrings/57843/3 "2021-03-24T09:49:14Z")
What Julia version are you using? It works as expected on Julia 1.5. (Julia 1.6 has another list display bug, but it does not look as in your screenshot).
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### Author:  [@Xijiang\_Yu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Xijiang_Yu)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2021, 10:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-put-sublists-into-docstrings/57843/4 "2021-03-24T10:23:11Z")
I use 0-day julia. Same problem.
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### Author:  [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2021, 1:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-put-sublists-into-docstrings/57843/5 "2021-03-24T13:04:54Z")
Ah that might be it then - I am using Julia 1.6.0-rc3. I’ll look to see if an issue is opened on Julia
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### Author:  [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-put-sublists-into-docstrings/57843/6 "2021-03-24T14:36:41Z")
Issue opened since I could not find anything else referencing this phenomena: [https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/40169](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/40169)