CompuServe Messages

It's not similar in cmds or anything… but the exact capabilities you show are in there. You would say: \begin{itemize} \item thing \item thing two \item thing III \end{itemize} Or, if you wanted enumerated lists, you use \begin{enumerate} And for things like a glossary or dictionary where the item is to be bolded, and a description attached, \begin{description} All with the appropriate ends. The TeX language was created by Knuth, the fellow that did modula, so there's no question of it's coming from IBM.