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Dear All,

I would like to write a list environment that only writes the non-empty items, but with the same label that would have appeared if that item was non-empty.

This is what I have:
\documentclass{book}

\newcounter{mnum}
\newenvironment{mlist}{\setcounter{mnum}{0} % 1) 2) 3)
\begin{list ...