Indenting an item between number and text

Question

There are already many similar questions, unfortunately mine is slightly different. I'd like to indent between the item marker (number, bullet...) and the text. This is easily done with e.g. \item \hspace{3mm}...only that if the line breaks, it doesn't align with the rest above it. (I do have enumitem loaded, if that helps. For normal text \adjustwidth should do the trick, right?) Abusing code formatting:

Not so good
* bla
*    blablablablablablablabla
  blablablablablablablablabla
Better
* bla
*    blablablablablablablabla
     blablablablablablablabla

Answer 1

Having enumitem loaded you can nest itemize-environments to achieve what you're after. The documentation is still helpful (starting on page 6 you'll find section 3.2 Horizontal spacing of labels).

What follows is a highly edited example for your convenience:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}

\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}

\section*{Enumitem}

\begin{enumerate}[%
    parsep=.5\parskip,
    labelsep=1em,
]
    \item First item
    \begin{enumerate}[%
        label=$\arabic*$,
        leftmargin=*,
        labelindent=-1.5em,
        labelsep=2em,
    ]
        \item[2.] First \emph{nested} item
        \item[3.] Second \emph{nested} item
    \end{enumerate}
    \item[4.] Second item
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}