LyX ⇒ Change enumerate/itemize to A, B, C, ...

[Christopher]

Hi,

I would like to change the points that start the itemizing or the numbers that start the enumerating to A),B),C) and so on. I'm suspecting the solution to be changing the nesting preferences or sth. like that. But I don't know how to proceed.

Thanks in advance!
Christopher

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Christopher,

welcome to the board!

Concerning the itemize environment you could redefine \labelitemi to get a different symbol for its labels, for example:

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\renewcommand*\labelitemi{$\star$}

The macros for deeper levels are \labelitemii, \labelitemiii and \labelitemiv.

Concerning the enumerate environment you could redefine \theenumi to change the output of the counter and \labelenumi to change the label, for example:

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\renewcommand*\theenumi{\Alph{enumi}}
\renewcommand*\labelenumi{\theenumi)}

Deeper levels similar like above.

There are packages helping to customize list environments, for instance enumitem, have a look at its documentation.

Stefan

[Christopher]

Hi Stefan_K,

thanks for the fast answer. I am new to Latex/Lyx. Hence I have problems to install the package. First of all: I am using a mac, so I don't know how to open this tar.izma file I download as the package. Where should I install this?

Cheers,
C

[Maksi]

Hi Stefan_K,

thanks for the fast answer. I am new to Latex/Lyx. Hence I have problems to install the package. First of all: I am using a mac, so I don't know how to open this tar.izma file I download as the package. Where should I install this?

Cheers,
C

I suppose you use MacTeX, enumitem is part of MacTeX (as it is based on TeXlive), you do not need to install it. Just try to put the commands in LyX -> Document -> Settings -> LaTeX Preamble and see if they work. If not, put \usepackage{enumitem} in the Preamble and some needed setups (check the package documentation) in [] befores as in: \usepackage[options]{enumitem}

[spiegboy]

user enumerate package, wherein an the label can be set as an optional parameter in the enumerate environment