Text Formatting ⇒ bug with custom label for list evironments

[cotta]

Hello,

I recently started using LaTeX and tried to nest \list-environments with custom labels via \list{\textendash}.

Everything worked fine but the label for the second item within the nested \list never appeared.

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\begin{list}{\textbullet}
   \item 1
   \item begin{list}{\textendash}
      \item 1.1
      \item 1.2 <-- this item is diplayed without a label e.g. \textendash
      \item 1.3 <-- this item's label is displayed correctly
   \end{list}
\end{list}

Does this happen due to a bug in the list macro or am I missing some thing?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[gmedina]

Hi,

the list environment has two mandatory arguments; the first one specifies the label used and the second one handles the spacing parameters for the list. The problem with your code is that in both list environments you are missing the second argument. In the following example I show two options: the first one, using list environments, and the second one, using customised itemize environments:

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\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\begin{list}{\textbullet}{}
   \item 1
   \item \begin{list}{\textendash}{}
      \item 1.1
      \item 1.2 
      \item 1.3 
   \end{list}
\end{list}

\begin{itemize}
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\textbullet}
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\textendash}
   \item 1
   \item \begin{itemize}
      \item 1.1 
      \item 1.2 
      \item 1.3 
   \end{itemize}
\end{itemize}

\end{document}

[localghost]

The enumitem package simplifies the handling of list environments.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[cotta]

Thanks everyone. You really helped me with that one!