# How to create Bullet-List with Fancy Bullet Shapes?

Can somebody please provide some hint on how to achieve the following 2 types of bullet-lists?

Type-1: [Diamond Shaped Bullets]

Type-2: [Round Shaped Bullets]

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You can use \item[$\blacklozenge$]. But this is a manual procedure. You can redefine the enumitemi to do this automatic. –  Sigur Aug 22 '12 at 2:04
Have a look here: tex.stackexchange.com/q/10192/14100 –  Scott H. Aug 22 '12 at 2:16

Use the enumitem package; a little example:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{bbding}
\usepackage{tikz}

\newcommand*\circled[1]{\tikz[baseline=(char.base)]{
\node[shape=circle,draw,inner sep=0.3pt] (char) {#1};}}

\begin{document}

\begin{itemize}[label=\EightFlowerPetalRemoved]
\item First item.
\item Second item.
\item Third item.
\end{itemize}

\begin{enumerate}[label=\protect\circled{\Alph{enumi}}]
\item First item.
\item Second item.
\item Third item.
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}


Of course, you can do it without enumitem:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{bbding}
\usepackage{tikz}

\newcommand*\circled[1]{\tikz[baseline=(char.base)]{
\node[shape=circle,draw,inner sep=1pt] (char) {#1};}}

\begin{document}

\renewcommand\labelitemi{\EightFlowerPetalRemoved}
\begin{itemize}
\item First item.
\item Second item.
\item Third item.
\end{itemize}

\renewcommand\labelenumi{\circled{\Alph{enumi}}}
\begin{enumerate}
\item First item.
\item Second item.
\item Third item.
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}


And without enumitem and TikZ:

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{pifont}

\begin{document}

\renewcommand\labelitemi{\ding{117}}
\begin{itemize}
\item First item.
\item Second item.
\item Third item.
\end{itemize}

\renewcommand\labelenumi{\textcircled{\raisebox{-0.02ex}{\scriptsize\kern-0.2pt\Alph{enumi}}}}
\begin{enumerate}
\item First item.
\item Second item.
\item Third item.
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}


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Thanks. I have a small problem. In case of circled bullets: "\renewcommand\labelenumi{\textcircled{\Alph{enumi}}} " The alphabets: 'A', 'B' ..etc seem to be overflowing out of the Circle. Can we increase the size of the circle wrapping the alphabets here? –  Sandeep Singh Aug 22 '12 at 3:11
@SandeepSingh try now (I added \footnotisize to reduce the font size.) –  Gonzalo Medina Aug 22 '12 at 3:40
@SandeepSingh I made additional modifications to correct the size and position of the characters inside the circle. –  Gonzalo Medina Aug 22 '12 at 3:53
Thanks. Its working ! –  Sandeep Singh Aug 22 '12 at 4:15