{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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What are the differences between using paralist vs. enumitem
I am looking for advice on which of these packages to use? Under what circumstances would paralist be preferred over enumitem?
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Trouble combining enumitem and beamer
I have trouble combining two things for a set of slides:
Adjust item separation globally
Use default overlays of lists locally (parameter [<+->])
I use enumitem for 1. but it seems to ...
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Suggestions for transitioning from paralist to enumitem package
Based on the suggestions on What are the differences between using paralist vs. enumitem, I am transitioning from using paralist to enumitem and have encountered a few issues.
There are a few places ...
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How to make enumerate items align at left margin?
I would like to have my lists to have no indent for the top level, i.e. having the same left margin as the surrounding paragraph, with just enough space for the widest label to fit:
Paragraph text
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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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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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How to suppress vertical space between theorem heads and enumitem environments?
How can I suppress vertical space between a theorem head and an enumitem
environment?
I would like the output to look like version 3 below, but I hope there is an
automagical solution without ~ and ...
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Best way to part answers from solutions?
Now, if anyone could change the title into something better that would be great =)
I am writing a rather long document, which contains plenty of integrals. I have a big list
of integrals sorted in a ...
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Can't get my head around enumitem's spacing parameters
Maybe it's my terrible lack of sleep but I can't get my head around enumitem's horizontal spacing parameters.
What I want is a decription enviroonment in which the first line of each item (where the ...
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Description list with right alignment of labels
I want a description list that looks like the following:
Name | Joel Spolsky
Address | Some address
Some zipcode
Telephone | +31 123 456
E-Mail | ...
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Does enumitem conflict with beamer for lists?
I am using the enumitem package in a beamer presentation.
When I added a usepackage directive for it, the bullets in front of itemize lists disappeared.
I tried restoring them by using
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Global setting of spacing between items in itemize environment for beamer
I'd like to modify the spacing between items in the itemize environment. This post shows how to modify a specific itemize environment (\addtolength{\itemsep}{0.5\baselineskip}). However, I'd like to ...
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Automatically number a description list [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Enumerated description list
I would basically like to produce some kind of combination of an enumerate and a description environment. Manually
\begin{description}
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How to control enumitem's description list via leftmargin and labelwidth keys
I am trying to learn how to use enumitem's keys to adjust a description list. In this case, I would like to have my list items and description text both left aligned, but the description text should ...
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A five level deep list
I would like to create a five level deep list using the enumitem package. I found this suggestion on stackoverflow and implemented it as follows
\documentclass[twoside,a4paper,12pt]{report}
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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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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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Enumerated list indentation
I noticed that when I use enumerated list environment it produces an extra indentation to the document. So that if I'm using \usepackage[margin=3cm]{geometry} and then the enumerated list, the left ...
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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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How to “bubble in”/color fill an item counter ((A),(B),(C),…) in an enumerated list
I'm trying to make an answer explanation guide for a test where the correct answer is "bubbled in".
I've tried using the enumitem package and tikz as shown in this post (Enumerated list with blue ...
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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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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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Make enumerate have beamer themes when using enumitem
I really like the enumitem package, but it seems to have compatibility issues with beamer. I could get them to work together for itemize lists by using the following:
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How to reduce vertical space itemize environment inside table
I have this:
I want for the first item to be vertically aligned with my other cells. How can I do it? The answers provided here suggested to play with topsep and partopsep:
How can I change ...
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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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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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Tabbing with automatic line breaks
I want to format text like this:
a) Bla bla bla bla lbal bla
blablalakasdfdl sdlf sdfl
blablalbalasldkfsdflksdf
b) b;sdfdfgldfgajs;dflsfsldfk
s;dlfskfwopwerkrotkdfpgodfg
osdofkdfgk ...
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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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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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enumitem conflicts with galician
The following code:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[galician]{babel}
\usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Preguntas ...
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Coloured numbering in a list?
Is there a way to obtain coloured numbering in an enumerate list?
\begin{enumerate}
\item First
\item Second
\item Third
\end{enumerate}
I'd like the 1, 2, 3 to be in blue. I thought this should be ...
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enumitem itemize environment shifts text into margin, or overlaps other text
I am in the process of transitioning from using the older {paralist} package to the {enumitem} package and this question on Suggestions for transitioning from paralist to enumitem package suggested to ...
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Resuming a list started within a minipage
I have a minipage with a figure, and I want part (a) to be on the right of this figure (so part (a) is in a 2nd minipage), and the remaining parts (b), (c), etc to be below. The insights provided in ...
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Setting rightmargin = leftmargin with enumitem package
The default leftmargin when using the enumitem package seems to be leftmargin=*, is there a way I can get the rightmargin to be the same width? The most obvious way would be rightmargin=* but that ...
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Enumeration with several items per line, several lines and nicely formatted
Based on Alan's answer here, I would like to be able to create nicely formatted "inline" enumerated lists.
The issue I have is that the space between items on a line is always fixed, which does not ...
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Description list using package enumitem: how to force lowercase small caps and align body text?
I'm trying to format a description list with small caps for the labels and have the body text a standard distance from the left margin. When I use capitals in the labels (in the real list they are ...
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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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Customizing enumerations and itemizations
Is there a guide out there on how to customize the enumerate and itemize instances in my code? (I'm using the Memoir class in LaTeX for Windows, and I have the enumitem package included.) I want to ...
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Horizontal space in lists
What is the best way to change the amount of horizontal space in list environments?
Examples:
1.############################ % Near the enumerated item - compacted horizontal space
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