Text Formatting ⇒ Customising enumerate/itemize environment, section numbering

[harroldc]

Hello, can you please advise me on how can I customise either enumerate or itemize environment to change the indentation of text after letters? I am trying to achieve this document design for work purposes and the only problem are bigger spaces after letters, as you can see on the second page: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2010/pd ... 014_en.pdf

By default, the spaces are smaller and none of the solutions I have found work, as they for example affect only the first line, not the whole paragraph.

As to my second question, I would like to know how can I change the section numbering. For example, I want the sub-subsection "0.0.1 Text" to be shown as "1 Text", possibly with a customised space as you can see in the same hyperlinked document, so the final look would be "1 (variable space) Text".

Thank you very much in advance for you effort.

[meho_r]

You may customize sectioning units appearance using titlesec package, and lists using enumitem package. Here's a quick example:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{mathpazo}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setenumerate{leftmargin=3.2em,labelsep=1em}
\setenumerate[1]{label=(\arabic*)}
\setenumerate[2]{label=(\alph*),topsep=0pt}
\setenumerate[3]{label=(\roman*),topsep=0pt}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\subsection}{\bfseries}{\bfseries\thesubsection}{2em}{}
\renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\arabic{subsection}}
\begin{document}
\subsection{Anti-Slavery Day}
\begin{enumerate}
\item The Secretary of State shall by order made by statutory instrument specify a date which shall be observed each year as Anti-Slavery Day.
\item The purpose of Anti-Slavery Day shall be to—
   \begin{enumerate}
      \item acknowledge that millions of men, women and children continue to be victims of slavery, depriving them of basic human dignity and freedom;
      \item raise awareness amongst young people and others of the dangers and consequences of slavery, human trafficking and exploitation and encourage them to be proactive in the fight against it;
      \item draw attention to—
      \begin{enumerate}
         \item the progress made by government and those working to combat all forms of slavery, human trafficking and exploitation, and                
         \item what more needs to be done.
      \end{enumerate}
   \end{enumerate}
\item In this Act “slavery” includes—
   \begin{enumerate}
      \item trafficking for sexual exploitation,
 
 
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You may play with numbers and instead of em use any other unit (pt, mm, cm...). You may do further customization following instructions in manuals of above-mentioned packages.

[harroldc]

Excellent! Thank you very much!

Joining this forum has proven very useful.

[meho_r]

I'm glad it helped. And welcome to our community

P.S. Now that the problem is solved, please follow Board Rules, section 3, and mark the thread as solved.

[harroldc]

Done. And thank you for giving me notice of the rule as well. Somehow, I overlooked it.

EDIT: Oh, one more expression of how great was your help – although I did not ask, I was wondering which font they used and you answered it. Splendid.