# How align paragraph with labels before resume enumitem list

I have an enumerate list created with enumitem that I interrupt and then resume. Between the last item before the interruption and the first after the resumption, I insert a text paragraph. How can I horizontally align that paragraph so that:

1. The first line of that paragraph is horizontally aligned with the left ends of the item labels (as indicated on the output shown at the end here); and instead
2. The entire paragraph's left edge is aligned with the left ends of the item labels.

Here's what I tried:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\newlist{myenum}{enumerate}{1}
\setlist[myenum,1]{label= \upshape(\arabic*), ref={\arabic*}}

\begin{document}

\noindent Here is a list.

\begin{myenum}
\item
One
\item
Two
\end{myenum}

\hspace{\the\labelindent}%
Some other text will go here that may or may not fill out more than a single line of text on the page.

\begin{myenum}[resume*]
\item
Three
\item
Four
\end{myenum}

\end{document}


I believe I want some arithmetic combination of lengths, such as in...

\hspace{\the\labelwidth-\the\labelsep}


...and I would expect to use some command from package calc to do this, but: (a) I don't know how to combine such lengths; and (b) I don't see just what lengths I need to combine.

• \parindent\labelsep\hangindent\labelsep Some other text ... – Fran Feb 14 '18 at 2:35
• Semantically, I would rather align the labels on the left margin with the wide option. – Bernard Feb 14 '18 at 8:48
• If you mean to add the wide option to the \setlist{myenum,1}, then in the resumed part of the list, the labels are no longer aligned with those in the first part of the list. – murray Feb 14 '18 at 15:29
• @Fran: With \parindent\labelsep\hangindent\labelsep, the some other text is not aligned with the left parens of the labels, but a bit to the left of that. – murray Feb 14 '18 at 15:34

this seems to do the job:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\newlist{myenum}{enumerate}{1}
\setlist[myenum,1]{label= \upshape(\arabic*), ref={\arabic*}}

\newdimen\midlistindent
\settowidth{\midlistindent}{(1)\kern-\labelindent\kern-\labelsep}
\newcommand{\midlist}[1]{%
\begingroup
\leftskip\midlistindent
\noindent #1\unskip\par
\endgroup}

\begin{document}

\noindent Here is a list.

\begin{myenum}
\item
One
\item
Two
\end{myenum}

\midlist{%
Some other text will go here that may or may not fill out more than a single line of text on the page.
}

\begin{myenum}[resume*]
\item
Three
\item
Four
\end{myenum}

\end{document}


• Is there some strictly LaTeX way to do this? – murray Feb 15 '18 at 14:34
• @murray -- there's not a "direct" way to do this. i looked into the enumitem code to see how \labelwidth was calculated, but it is far from obvious. so i simply took advantage of the existence of the \labelwidth name, to avoid having to descend into the realm of command names with @ in them. – barbara beeton Feb 15 '18 at 15:02