I’m having a little adventure with taxonomy listings. First, if I define a taxonomy.html, I have also to define term.html, because page lookup doesn’t fall through to list.html - it gets stuck at taxonomy.html. Now I have to copy list.html to term.html and maintain essentially one file for the price of two.
This brings me to the question: What term.html can that list.html cannot?
I have been diligently reading the documentation for the past hour or so, and I’m really stuck with the terminology.
If you use layouts/_default/terms.html to display the terms within a given taxonomy, layouts/_default/list.html will be used when displaying pages related to a particular term (assuming you have not created an override for that as well).
EDIT: Remember to delete layouts/_default/taxonomy.html when you test this.