General ⇒ Formatting answers to exam questions

[serg.kr]

Note: found the solution to the original problem. But please see next post.

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Hello,

I have an assignment for school that involves answering a set of about 40 questions. I'm writing my answers in LaTeX. The answers range anywhere from a single sentence to several paragraphs.

I originally thought that the enumerate environment would be ideal for numbering my answers, but then realized that my answers are strictly tied to to someone else's numbering. The enumerate environment works great when you need the numbering to be handled for you -- might need to swap items in a list and have the list be renumbered automatically. But such is not the case here. In fact, it's better for me to number my answers manually -- each reply corresponds to a specific number that is known beforehand.

However, the enumerate environment was excellent for formatting -- the numbers and the items in the list are aligned with just the right amount of spacing between them. Furthermore, the numbers and the items are all aligned vertically. (The only issue I had with enumerate was that paragraphs were not indented).

So what should I do if I want to preserve the formatting of lists, but number the list myself?

[serg.kr]

Found the solution. The enumitem packages allows the \item command to have an optional argument that specifies the label. So now I just use:

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\item[1.] Answer to number 1
\item[2.] Answer to number 2
...

But now, I have the problem of indentation. I want my paragraphs to be indented inside the list. Is there any way to enable indentation inside the enumerate environment?