{enumitem} is a package that provides user control over the layout of the three basic list environments: {itemize}, {enumerate}, and {description}.

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Incompatibility between currfile and enumitem? [closed]

The MWE below yields: Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> enit@cv@currfiledepth \item testing. for the itemize ...
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misplaced qed symbol after displaymath inside item of inline list

My problem involes a qed symbol which appears too early. My observations are that it happens after a displaymath inside an item of an unboxed inline list. All of this seems to be necessary to produce ...
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Nested enumerate labels with parent label appended plus a single set of enclosing parentheses

I want to have a list like (1) foo (1.1) foo (1.2) foo (2) foo I am using the package enumitem and \begin{enumerate}[label=(\arabic*)] \item foo \end{enumerate} I know that i can append ...
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How to create an inline list via a macro

I want to create a macro that yields an inline lists. I can easily do this using enumerate* form the the enumitem package, but when I attempt to wrap this in a macro, I get: Extra }, or forgotten ...
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Theorem Spacing in Lists

I was wondering how I can change the spacing in my lists when I start my list off with a theorem environment. An example of this is that I have my list using the enumitem package with my code: ...
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How to change list settings globally?

I'm new to latex, so this might just be a stupid error on my end, but I've downloaded the enumitem package and am trying to globally change the style of {enumerate} so that I don't have to type ...
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Define a colour enumeration

The following code is very interesting as it adds an asterisk beside an enumeration. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{enumitem} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% CODE thanks to egreg ...
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Unbold referenced label

I'm fetching references from an enumeration. The problem is that I want the labels of the enumeration to be bold (hence, I've added a \textbf command) but I want the references in the text to be plain ...
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List elements without indentation

I am using the enumitem package to tweak the enumerate environment. I would like to have all the items in different levels aligned in the left margin. I tried with different parameters of the package ...
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Enumitem, Listings, Tabbing to a Certain Point

I was wondering whether it was possible to align a lstlisting environment to a certain point within an enumerate . The purpose of my doing this is to fit as much code sample on the page as possible, ...
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Question about enumitem, suspend/resume enumeration, last item of list, nested list

How do I suspend / resume an item of a list, multiple levels, if it is the last item of the list? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{enumitem} \begin{document} \begin{enumerate} \item first ...
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How would I code the following using enumitem?

I would really (really) appreciate it if someone could give me the code in enumitem that does the following: I need just one indexing set (roman numerals) and the flexibility to change space between ...
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Make the contents of a sentence fit to a line?

I have been working on a resume. However, some of the text is going beyond a line. For instance, the "Thesis topic" here exceeds the single line as seen: Here is the code: ...
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enumerate in multicols

The following image illustrates what am looking for: Essentially I want the numbering to occur as shown above but using the multicol and enumitem package. But when I try it by using the following ...
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Description list with aligned descriptions

This forum thread is exactly what I'm looking for. I want my description environment to produce this: Label is long text lab2 blalballalaa label3 possible second rule label ...
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enumitem line separation within a single item

I have this happening when the item wraps: The code I have so far is: \setlist{leftmargin=!, align=left, font=\large\textsf, itemsep=20pt, labelwidth=10pt, itemindent=-28pt} How can I adjust the ...
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How to suppress vertical space between proof environment heads and itemize environments?

The user 'egreg' recently helped me to suppress vertical space between theorem heads and enumitem environments (such as itemize; see the link below). I now have a similar problem: When a proof ...
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How to create numbered examples potentially with letter suffixes, e.g. using enumitem?

I have a weird numbering problem in a manuscript that uses sequentially numbered text examples. When an example demonstrates something which is e.g. wrong and later to be corrected they have suffixes ...
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Formatting for body of \item in itemize/enumerate/description environment

What I am looking for is a way to specify some formatting, say italics, for the body of each \item in an itemize/enumerate/description environment, up front, without having to do it explicitly for ...
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Remove top and bottom margin in tabular (around lists)

If I create a table with several (short) lists, currently I'm using a table construction with enumitem to (almost) remove the left margin. Now I still have a rather large margin at the top and the ...
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Automatic overview for a FAQ list [closed]

In my answer to Enumerated description list you can see, that I've created a special list edtoclist and a list command edtocitem for an internal “table of contents” or in other words an overview, that ...
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\usepackage{enumitem} produces “Environment description undefined” error

If I run pdflatex on the following: \documentclass[class=minimal,border=0pt]{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{varwidth} \usepackage{upquote} % \usepackage{enumitem} ...
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how to define inparaenum in the preamble

I'm using both \inparaenum and \enumerate in my thesis and I would like them to set them in the preamble so that each item is set off with a). I used \setenumerate[0]{\itshape a\upshape)} in the ...
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How do I control the font of the item text in an enumitem list?

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{enumitem} \begin{document} \begin{description}[style=nextline] \item[Label 1] {\sffamily\LARGE item text 1} \item[Label2] Item text 2 \end{description} ...
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Add an asterisk left of an enumerate

I am looking for a simple way of adding an asterisk or some small image to the left of an enumerate such that the indentation of the enumeration is not affected by the latter. I have read Add asterisk ...
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Create a bold enumerated list with parenthesized lower case letters

I can create an enumerated list with parenthesized lower case letters by using the enumitem package (with the [shortlabels] option) in the preamble and then using \begin{enumerate}[(a)]. I can also ...
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Use ball items in enumerate list with enumitem package

In Beamer, I would like to be able to use ball items (with a number inside) in an enumerate list whose layout is defined by the package enumitem. This question is closely related to Make enumerate ...
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How to alternate labels' styles in enumerated lists?

How can I alternate the display of an enumerated list's counter according to which command I've used? E.g., I want \foo{poor Yorick!} to look like (9) poor Yorick! but I want \bar{Joelle} to have a ...
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Nested enumerate (enumitem) interferes with suppressing vertical space after theorem heads.

In the post How to suppress vertical space between theorem heads and enumitem environments? David Carlisle suggested a piece of code that helps suppressing vertical space between theorem heads and an ...
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enumitem nextline style: nested item shouldn't start on description label's line

I use enumitem description style nextline to emulate a sort of TOC entry with the following code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{enumitem} \newenvironment{DLdescription}[1][*]{% ...
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Indenting multiple paragraphs in description

I am trying to put multiple paragraphs in a description, where the body text is indented by one \parindent, and I want to indent the second paragraph by one \parindent relative to the body text ...
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Possible incompatibility with enumitem

If I compile the following: \documentclass[]{article} \usepackage{enumerate} \usepackage{enumitem} \begin{document} \begin{enumerate}[1.] \item This is the first \item This is the second ...
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Multiline item indent

I am currently writing a set of steps for my lecture notes on circles but when the description of the step is too long, becomes multiline, the enumerated environment does not left indents properly as ...
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How do I cross-reference custom labels in my enumitem lists without having the punctuation show up?

I am using enumitem to handle my enumerate and itemize lists. I have a list like \begin{enumerate}[label=Step \arabic{enumi}.] \item step the first \label{en:step-1} \item el secundo ...
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Align \item labels at top of mdframed box

By default, enumerate's \item labels align with the top of the text: However, if the text happens to be a mdframed box, the labels align with the bottom of the box which does not look so good: ...
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Replace \item with \MyItem to box each list member with an mdframed

Since it was pointed out that redefining \item can be dangerous in strange interaction between `mdframed` and `\item`, I am wondering if there are going to be problems with this solution. My goal is ...
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enumitem package and description lists

Why does the following generate an error? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{enumitem} \begin{document} \begin{description}[label=\emph{\alph*})] \item [aaa] bbbb \item [eee] əəəə ...
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enumerate environment and graphics

If I have an item in an enumerate environment, which only contains a figure (or table etc), the bullet point of the enumerations alignment goes weird. For example: \begin{enumerate}[(a)] \item ...
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How to change symbol separating description item definitions with enumitem

I'm trying to alter the description environment with enumitem so that an item will be separated from its description by a dash rather than a colon. Having searched the documentation and this forum, I ...
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Modifying labels on some enumerated items

In an enumerate environment, I want a few (not all) of the items to have asterisks which appear before the number (I don't feel strongly about whether the number or the asterisk is horizontally ...
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Using enumitem inside mdframed

I tried to use enumitems within mdframed as \documentclass{article} \usepackage{mdframed} \usepackage{enumitem} \usepackage{pifont} \newcommand{\pitem}[1]{{\item {\small #1}}} \begin{document} ...
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How to use bbding package?

I tried to use bbding package for the enumitem symbols. I have added to my code: \usepackage{bbding} .... \begin{itemize}[label=\HandRight] but I receive error !pdfTeX error: ...
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Escape the ] character [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Enumerated list with square brackets Using the help of this answer, I am trying to create a list in which each item is numbered by [1], [2], etc. ...
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Leftalign labels with enumitem

I'm using the enumitem package to define a legal list: \usepackage{enumitem} \newlist{legal}{enumerate}{10} \setlist[legal]{label*=\arabic*.} The output for a list looks like this: 1. foo 1.1 ...
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Enumerated list with blue circles and number inside it

I am creating a manual for an application and I would like to provide step by step directions of the application. For the step numbers, I would like to use big, blue circles with white numbers in it. ...
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newenvironment enumerate

I'd like to get a list with the label $\mathscr{G}_1$, where G_1 is the first item in the list. If I use \newenvironment{enumeratescr}{\begin{enumerate} [labelindent=\parindent, ...
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spacing in a description list using enumitem

I found Description list with right alignment of labels while looking for a solution for my own problem. I tried to modify the above solution, but there are a few ugly things I don't know what to do ...
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Why package enumitem conflicts with Tufte-book and/or beamer [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Trouble combining enumitem and beamer I am trying to produce a package, combining tufte-book and beamer, in order to produce lecture slides and handout (with ...
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Repeating enumerated list items and their original number

Sometimes enumerated lists are used to list example sentences which are referred to from the text by their numbers in the list. But as such references are made from far away pages it might be ...
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Alternative Enumeration Environment

I have a theorem which lists a bunch of properties, and then I prove them one-by-one. Because the proofs are long, it looks awkward when every line is automatically indented by the enumerate ...