{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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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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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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Centre roman numbers in enumerate environment
I have an enumerated list that uses roman numbers.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}[label=\roman*]
\item first entry
\item second entry
...
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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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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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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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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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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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A new environment based on enumerate
I have defined the following simple environment:
\newenvironment{renumerate}{\begin{enumerate}\raggedright}{\end{enumerate}}
I wonder how the above can be modified to use with, say, the following:
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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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enumitem - labels fine - but references defined empty
Folks - the various hints as how to get to an enumeration/description listing elsewhere (e.g. Enumerated description list, Automatically number a description list) work splendidly.
However - somehow ...
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Using cleveref with enumitem's newlists
I'm trying to typeset a proof of a theorem, and I'd like to produce the following output:
Case 3: my text goes here and it can wrap to
another line, wherein I have subcases:
Case 3.a: ...
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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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Defining an new itemize like environment where \item[foo] passes foo to a macro
I want to use enumitem or similar package to define a basic list with the following properties:
When \item has no optional argument, a small square (\rule{1em}{1em}) is used
When \item[foo] is ...
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Two-colum task list with status information
I'm trying to generate a two-column task list with status information in the second column. It has to allow page breaks and should look more a less like this:
I managed to hack something together ...
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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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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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How to tab the whole subitem?
I'm typing up a document that requires subitems (ex: 1. a), b), etc.). I have been able to do this by using \subitem but what really bugs me is that only this first line of the subitem has a indent ...
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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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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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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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How does the enumitem package place the labels?
In the following screenshot, I would like the 1st item A) in the inline mode to be at the same level of indentation of the labels A) to D) in the first list.
To do that I would like to know how the ...
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Custom enumeration with undesired kerning
The following code produces the desired result as shown below:
\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,calc,bbding}
\usepackage{enumitem}
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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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Unexpected list spacing when trying to implement vertical lists in paragraph style (with enumitem)
I'm trying to create a styling for certain numbered lists where they are formatted as normal paragraphs; i.e., a paragraph indent before the label, with all subsequent lines of each item unindented. ...
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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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Different colours for the bullets in itemize environment
In the following list, the colour of the bullet will be fixed:
\begin{itemize}
\item Good point 1
\item Good point 2
\item Poor statement 1
\item Poor Statement 2
\end{itemize}
Is there anyway to ...
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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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Refer to customized `enumerate` counter
Background
I'm typesetting a list of conditions for a certain mathematical object. There are three conditions. Later on I wish to provide an equivalent condition for the third. Therefore, it would be ...
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Unable to Remove Vertical Space Before and After Lists within longtable
All the tricks to remove vertical space before and after itemize lists (using enumitem) seem to work well in table/tabular environments, but not in longtable. The following MWE illustrates the ...
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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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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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labelsep in enumitem: stretch ignored
As the title says: labelsep setting in the enumitem package ignores the stretch part. I would be happy to have a stretch there (in the end actually the current font's interword stretch achieved by ...
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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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\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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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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Asterisk inside a variable
I am trying to define a variable with an asterisk in its value but keep getting errors. I have tried \def, \let and \newcommand but neither worked. A minimal example:
\documentclass{article}
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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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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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Controlling parindent in enumerate inside customized list environment
I'm trying to control the indentation of paragraphs in an enumerated list that is inside a customized list environment. I find that changing \parindent in the inner list has no effect.
Here's an ...
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Bullet and number indenting in list
I would like to make a custom indenting for lists:
Bullet or number is indented 1.2 cm from the left margin
Text (all lines) is indented 1.8 cm from the left margin
I am trying to use the enumitem ...
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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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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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