General ⇒ breaking out of an enumerate for one sentence

[dmt]

I want to add a sentence in the middle of an enumerate that isn't part of the enumeration. I would like to do this without the need to add any new packages (or at least any non standard ones, since I am trying to make a very easily portable template for others to use).

The idea would be a result something like this:

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This is how you do these problems:
   1.  stuff and stuff
   2.  more stuff and stuff

This is how you do these other problems:
   3. even more stuff and stuff
   4. foo and bar and stuff

I had done this originally by using different enumerate environments, but I would now like the numbering to continue from one "group" to the next.

[localghost]

The enumitem package makes it possible.

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This is how you do these problems:
\begin{enumerate}
  \item stuff and stuff
  \item more stuff and stuff
\end{enumerate}
This is how you do these other problems:
\begin{enumerate}[resume]
  \item even more stuff and stuff
  \item foo and bar and stuff
\end{enumerate}

Further information can be found in the manual.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[gmedina]

Hi dmt,

if you don't want to use the enumitem package (as localghost suggested), you can reset manually the corresponding counter:

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\documentclass{report}

\begin{document}

This is how you do these problems:
\begin{enumerate}
  \item stuff and stuff
  \item more stuff and stuff
\end{enumerate}
This is how you do these other problems:
\begin{enumerate}
\setcounter{enumi}{2}
  \item even more stuff and stuff
  \item foo and bar and stuff
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

[dmt]

Thanks you two.

Is the enumitem package standard enough that I can assume most people have it (for example, those that only have some default latex installation)?

[gmedina]

...Is the enumitem package standard enough that I can assume most people have it (for example, those that only have some default latex installation)?

enumitem is not included in the Basic MiKTeX 2.7 installation, for example.

[dmt]

Okay, thanks.