Paragraph numbering

Question

I am an English lawyer and am trying to use LaTeX to typeset a legal opinion in traditional style. I am looking for a way to automatically number paragraphs and sub-paragraphs, i.e. something that looks like the below. This is very easy with multi-level lists in Word but I can't figure out an easy way to do it with LaTeX. Any help would be much appreciated.

Is it possible to create something that looks like the below?

Many thanks!

Edit I now have this working as I'd like it using the following code:

\documentclass[a4paper, oneside, 12pt]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{newpxtext,newpxmath}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[hang]{footmisc}

% \usepackage[none]{hyphenat}

% Set enumerate to have continuous numbering and make our sublist styles
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist[enumerate]{
    resume,
    align=left,
    topsep=0.25cm,
    itemsep=0.25cm,
    leftmargin=1cm,
    rightmargin=0cm,
    itemindent=0cm,
    labelsep=0cm,
    labelwidth=1cm,
    labelindent=0cm,
}

\newlist{enum-alpha}{enumerate}{1}
\setlist[enum-alpha]{
    label=(\alph*),
    align=left,
    topsep=0.25cm,
    itemsep=0.25cm,
    leftmargin=1cm,
    rightmargin=0cm,
    itemindent=0cm,
    labelsep=0cm,
    labelwidth=1cm,
    labelindent=0cm,
}

\newlist{enum-roman}{enumerate}{1}
\setlist[enum-roman]{
    label=(\roman*),
    align=left,
    topsep=0.25cm,
    itemsep=0.25cm,
    leftmargin=1cm,
    rightmargin=0cm,
    itemindent=0cm,
    labelsep=0cm,
    labelwidth=1cm,
    labelindent=0cm,
}

% Disable section numbering
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}

% Adjust section heading formats
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}{\bfseries}{}{0pt}{}
\titleformat{\subsection}{\bfseries}{}{0pt}{\hspace*{1cm}}
\titleformat{\subsubsection}{\itshape}{}{0pt}{\hspace*{2cm}}

\begin{document}

    \section{Heading}
    \begin{enumerate}
     
        \item \blindtext %\footnote{\blindtext}

        \item \blindtext

        \begin{enum-alpha}
            \item \blindtext
            
            \begin{enum-roman}
            
                \item \blindtext                 
                \item \blindtext                
            
            \end{enum-roman}
            
            \item \blindtext
        
        \end{enum-alpha}
    
    \end{enumerate}

    \section{Heading}
    \subsection{Sub-heading}
    \subsubsection{Sub-sub heading}
    \begin{enumerate}
        \item \blindtext

        \begin{enum-alpha}
            \item Test.\footnote{Test}
            
            \item \blindtext             
        \end{enum-alpha}
    
    \end{enumerate}
    
    \subsection{Sub-heading}
    \begin{enumerate}
            \item \blindtext 
        \end{enumerate}

\end{document}

Which renders as attached (just screenshotting the first two pages):

The need to \begin and \end each enumerate environment is quite cumbersome. I was wondering if there is a way to prepare a document like this in Markdown and then use pandoc to convert it to PDF via LaTEX in a way that formats the nested lists as in my example. I suspect it will be easier to set the list definitions based on how far nested they are, rather than using named sublists, e.g:

\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist[enumerate]{
    align=left,
    leftmargin=1cm,
    itemindent=0cm,
    labelsep=0cm,
    labelwidth=1cm,
    labelindent=0cm,
}

\setlist[enumerate,1]{
    resume,
    label=\arabic*.,
}

\setlist[enumerate,2]{
    label=(\alph*),
}

\setlist[enumerate,3]{
    label=(\roman*),
}

Does anyone know if this is possible? I've found some discussion [here] (https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSX5opye0KWQ687nLhYKW1VTs2DljUUl5fra4kicNK7ygj-_Qyc3lhuEQh3g94Z4mM7EKQLPPpa3L3Q/pub) but it seems very complicated. I am wondering whether a preamble to the Markdown file or a change to the pandoc LaTeX template might achieve the same result.

Answer 1

I think the enumerate environment is what you are looking for. The option resume is from the enumitem package and allows to resume the numbering from the previous enumerate environment.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist[enumerate]{
    align=left,
    labelindent=0pt,
    leftmargin=1cm,
    labelsep=*,
}
\setlist[enumerate,3]{
    label=(\roman*)
}
\begin{document}
\section*{Heading}
\begin{enumerate}
    \item Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse vestibulum, ante a imperdiet placerat, diam libero blandit leo, quis ullamcorper.
    \item Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse vestibulum, ante a imperdiet placerat, diam libero blandit leo, quis ullamcorper.
    \begin{enumerate}
        \item Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse vestibulum, ante a imperdiet placerat, diam libero blandit leo, quis ullamcorper.
        \begin{enumerate}
            \item Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse vestibulum, ante a imperdiet placerat, diam libero blandit leo, quis ullamcorper.
            \item Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse vestibulum, ante a imperdiet placerat, diam libero blandit leo, quis ullamcorper.
        \end{enumerate}
        \item Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse vestibulum, ante a imperdiet placerat, diam libero blandit leo, quis ullamcorper.
    \end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate}

\section*{Heading}
\subsection*{Sub-heading}
\begin{enumerate}[resume]
    \item Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse vestibulum, ante a imperdiet placerat, diam libero blandit leo, quis ullamcorper.
    \begin{enumerate}
        \item Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse vestibulum, ante a imperdiet placerat, diam libero blandit leo, quis ullamcorper.
        \item Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse vestibulum, ante a imperdiet placerat, diam libero blandit leo, quis ullamcorper.
    \end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate}

\subsection*{Sub-heading}
\begin{enumerate}[resume]
    \item Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse vestibulum, ante a imperdiet placerat, diam libero blandit leo, quis ullamcorper.
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

Answer 2

A very diferent way using linguex: Just type \ex. to make a main item, \a. to start nested list, and \b. to add more items to the nested list. To close the nested list use \z. and to close the main item and any nested sublist, just add a blank line (=\par), so yoy should avoid it betwwen subtitems in the source text. The example does not show any blank lines but \par to highlight where it should be (and where it should not be).

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{linguex,lipsum}
\usepackage{lipsum} % just to avoid type dummy text
\renewcommand{\ExLBr}{} 
\renewcommand{\ExRBr}{.}
\renewcommand{\SubExLBr}{(} 
\renewcommand{\SubExRBr}{)}
\begin{document}
\section*{Heading}
\ex. \lipsum[1][1-2]\par
\ex. \lipsum[2][1-2]
  \a.  \lipsum[3][1-2] 
    \a.  \lipsum[4][1-2] 
    \b.  \lipsum[5][1-2]\z.
  \b.  \lipsum[6][1-2]\par
\ex. \lipsum[6][1-2]\par 
\section*{Heading}
\subsection*{Sub-heading}
\ex. \lipsum[7][1-2] 
\a. \lipsum[8][1-2] 
\b. \lipsum[9][1-2]\par 
\subsection*{Sub-heading}
\ex. \lipsum[10][1-2]\par 
\end{document}