How to define enumerate to use letters without indenting?

Question

Thus far I used the enumerate-environment with arabic numbers and wrote in my preamble \setlist[enumerate,1]{leftmargin=*} to avoid indenting. And it works well.

Now I'm trying to tell enumerate with \setenumerate[0]{label=(\alph*)} in my preamble to use small letters instead of arabic numbers. It works but now is a small indent in my list. When i use \Alph* instead of \alph*, it works without indenting, but I don't want to use big letters.

Is there any way of avoiding the indenting with \alph?

PS: I use the enumitem package.

Answer 1

By default the width of the label used when the label is \alph* is that of the character m. You can change this with the widest option:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{enumitem}

\setlist[enumerate,1]{leftmargin=*} 
\setlist[enumerate,0]{label=(\alph*),widest=a}

\begin{document}
\noindent
Text.
\begin{enumerate}
\item One
\item Two
\item Three
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

Incidentally \setenumerate is deprecated.