iOS7 TextKit: bullet point alignment

Question

I'm writing an app for iOS 7 only and I'm trying to get decent formatting on bullet points in a non-editable UITextView.

It's easy enough to just insert a bullet point character, but of course the left indentation won't follow. What's the easiest way on iOS 7 to set a left indent after a bullet point?

Thanks in advance,

Frank

Answer 1

So I've looked around, and here is the extracted minimal code from Duncan's answer to make it work:

NSMutableAttributedString *attributedString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:yourLabel.text];

NSMutableParagraphStyle *paragrahStyle = [[NSMutableParagraphStyle alloc] init];
[paragrahStyle setParagraphSpacing:4];
[paragrahStyle setParagraphSpacingBefore:3];
[paragrahStyle setFirstLineHeadIndent:0.0f];  // First line is the one with bullet point
[paragrahStyle setHeadIndent:10.5f];    // Set the indent for given bullet character and size font

[attributedString addAttribute:NSParagraphStyleAttributeName value:paragrahStyle
                         range:NSMakeRange(0, [self.descriptionLabel.text length])];

yourLabel.attributedText = attributedString;

And here is the result of that in my app: