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georgevi
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Question on use of "enumerate"

Post by georgevi »

I wonder if anybody here knows how to create a list labeled by (1), (2), (3) ...
I tried
\begin{enumerate}[{(1)}]
\item
\item
\end{enumerate}

and it doesn't work for me.

If I use
\begin{enumerate}
\item
\item
\end{enumerate}


It only produces lists like, 1, 2, 3,...

Thanks,
George

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Question on use of "enumerate"

Post by torbjorn t. »

Use the enumitem package.

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}[(1)]
\item One
\item Two
\item Three
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}
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georgevi
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Re: Question on use of "enumerate"

Post by georgevi »

Thank you so much! It works~
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Question on use of "enumerate"

Post by Stefan Kottwitz »

Hi George,

with enumitem you can set this enumeration style globally:

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setenumerate[1]{label=(\arabic*)}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
\item One
\item Two
\item Three
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}
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I prefer \setenumerate because it sets the style in the preamble for the whole document instead of doing it several times in the document like \begin{enumerate}[(1)]. Specifying the style in the preamble is consistent and changes would be easy.

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Montag
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Question on use of "enumerate"

Post by Montag »

You could also put

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%enumeration FIRST level with right parentheses
\renewcommand{\theenumi}{\arabic{enumi}}
\renewcommand{\labelenumi}{\theenumi{)}}
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in the preamble and every enumeration item on the first leve lwould be with a ")". Maybe you could use that to include a "(".
OS: Win 7 64-bit LaTeX: MikTeX 2.9 64-bit Editor: TXC 1 RC1
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Question on use of "enumerate"

Post by Stefan Kottwitz »

Arabic is the default, so redefining \labelenumi would be sufficient then:

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\renewcommand{\labelenumi}{(\theenumi)}
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