# Help with single left label for multiple items with a single left brace

I have a list in the itemize environment and I would like to have it all grouped with a left curly brace that points to a symbol like (*) that works as a label that I can reference later. Currently, my code looks like this:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{document}

$(*)\left\{ \begin{tabular}{p{.8\textwidth}} \begin{itemize} \item Second line \item Third line, which is quite long and seemingly tedious in the extreme \item Fourth line, which isn't as long as the third \end{itemize} \end{tabular} \right.$
\end{document}


However, this isn't ideal because I can't get \label{(*)} or something similar to work, so I can't use \ref on it later. If someone could help me with this it would be greatly appreciated.

• Welcome to TeX.SX! Could you please make your example compilable by adding the documentclass as well as teh relevant packages? What output would you expect from the \ref command in that case? – leandriis Sep 5 at 17:56
• @leandriis Sorry about that, just edited it. What I'm hoping for is that the reader can click on the output of \ref and be taken back to the label. Your other answer gave me exactly what I'm looking for, thank you! – user195912 Sep 5 at 18:11

With the help of \hypertarget and \hyperlink from the hyperref package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}

\hypertarget{mylabel}{$(*)\left\lbrace \begin{tabular}{p{.8\textwidth}} \begin{itemize} \item Second line \item Third line, which is quite long and seemingly tedious in the extreme \item Fourth line, which isn't as long as the third \end{itemize} \end{tabular} \right.$}
This is some text with a ref to \hyperlink{mylabel}{(*)}

\end{document}


I'd suggest to also load the enumitem package in order to improve the spacing around the itemize environment, for example as follows:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\newlist{tabitem}{itemize}{1}
\setlist[tabitem]{label=\textbullet,leftmargin=*, nosep,leftmargin=*,before=\vspace{-0.5\baselineskip},after=\vspace{-1\baselineskip}}

\begin{document}

\hypertarget{mylabel}{$(*)\left\lbrace \begin{tabular}{@{}p{.8\textwidth}} \begin{tabitem} \item Second line \item Third line, which is quite long and seemingly tedious in the extreme \item Fourth line, which isn't as long as the third \end{tabitem} \end{tabular} \right.$}
This is some text with a ref to \hyperlink{mylabel}{(*)}

\end{document}