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I'm wondering how to show the original enumerating instead of alpha inside the list. enumitem package is included.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
    \begin{enumerate}[label=(\alph*)]
      \item The first item
      \begin{enumerate}[label*=\arabic*.]
        \item Nested item 1
        \item Nested item 2
      \end{enumerate}
      \item The second item
      \item The third etc \ldots
    \end{enumerate}
\end{document}

What the code gives:

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What I want to achieve:

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Am I missing something? Thanks in advance.

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Just omit the * after label in the inner enumerate. The star appends the labelling of the outer ('parent') list to the inner list.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
    \begin{enumerate}[label={(\alph*)}]
        \item The first item
            \begin{enumerate}[label={\arabic*.}]
                \item Nested item 1
                \item Nested item 2
            \end{enumerate}
        \item The second item
        \item The third etc \ldots
    \end{enumerate}
\end{document}

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  • what is * doing after \alph and \arabic?
    – Fibo Kowalsky
    Nov 14, 2018 at 21:54
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    @FiboKowalsky: Reading the manual helps: It is an internal format for enumerate labels, in order to prevent the code using \alph and \arabic directly.
    – user31729
    Nov 15, 2018 at 16:35
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Remove the * from the label= in the nested list: 

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
    \begin{enumerate}[label=(\alph*)]
      \item The first item
      \begin{enumerate}[label=\arabic*.]
        \item Nested item 1
        \item Nested item 2
      \end{enumerate}
      \item The second item
      \item The third etc \ldots
    \end{enumerate}
\end{document}

Gives you the list you want:

List

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  • Yes, it seems as if you were a little bit faster than me with writing your answer. When submitting mine, I didn't see there is another one. I'm new to stackexchange - how do you usually handle those "duplicate replys"? Shall I remove mine? Or just leave it there?
    – Florian Bach
    Dec 8, 2015 at 20:16
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    Apparently you're German: Wo kein Richter da kein Henker ;-) Willkommen bei TeX.SX -- der Guten Seite der Typographie ;-)
    – user31729
    Dec 8, 2015 at 20:18
  • label={}, i.e. curly brackets may be required
    – A.Ametov
    May 24, 2022 at 0:29

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