It may be desirable to indent tables within lists.
Unfortunately, FrameMaker does not provide any way to control the indenting of tables other than by setting a left indent value for all tables of a particular format. While you could have a special format for tables in lists, this may quickly become unreasonable to manage.
DITA-FMx provides the Indent Table to Parent Element option (in the Authoring Options dialog), to automatically set the left indent for tables, based on the Left Indent property of the parent element’s paragraph tag. When a table is used in a standard list, the parent element will be the li element.
The indent is applied on file save (as well as on file open). After inserting a table in a list, save the document and the table will be indented to match the parent.
The indenting of simpletable elements is controlled by the expanse attribute values:
expanse=’textline’ - always indents to the parent element, regardless of the setting of the indent option.
expanse=’column’ - never indents; always forces the table to the column width.
expanse=’page’ - never indents; always forces the table to the page frame width.
expanse=’spread’ - never indents; always forces the table to the page frame width.