Text Formatting ⇒ Alignment in \enumerate list

[svend_tveskaeg]

Hi all.

Consider the following example:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[danish]{babel}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}[label={\footnotesize\textbullet},leftmargin=*,itemsep=0pt,labelsep=12pt]
  \item Baumann, Zygmunt: \quad Sociologisk perspektiv.
  \item Bjerg, Jens:      \quad Idehistorisk perspektiv.
  \item Borgnakke, Karen: \quad P{\ae}dagogisk perspektiv.
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

I would like to vertically align (to the left) the words "Sociologisk," "Idehistorisk," and "Pædagogisk" relative to the longest of them. (I have a much long list in my `real' document.) How do I do that?

Thank you in advance!

[localghost]

Why the enumerate environment when you only have unnumbered items? Since the objects that are to be aligned are not part of the label, you have to put them in a special box. Alignment with \makebox could be done by two methods.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,danish]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}
  \begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*,itemsep=0pt,labelsep=12pt]
    \item \makebox[10em][l]{Baumann, Zygmunt:} Sociologisk perspektiv.
    \item \makebox[10em][l]{Bjerg, Jens:} Idehistorisk perspektiv.
    \item \makebox[10em][l]{Borgnakke, Karen:} P{\ae}dagogisk perspektiv.
  \end{itemize}
  \begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*,itemsep=0pt,labelsep=12pt]
    \item \makebox[9em][l]{Baumann, Zygmunt}:\quad Sociologisk perspektiv.
    \item \makebox[9em][l]{Bjerg, Jens}:\quad Idehistorisk perspektiv.
    \item \makebox[9em][l]{Borgnakke, Karen}:\quad P{\ae}dagogisk perspektiv.
  \end{itemize}
\end{document}

Thorsten

[svend_tveskaeg]

It works fine!

The enumerate environment was because I didn't pay proper attention to what I was doing.

Is is possible to automatically calculate the length of the longest names from the list (Baumann, Zygmunt, ect.) + an \quad space and left adjust it at the same time, so that I don't have to write [<length>][l] every time?

I should have written that in the initial post; sorry!

Thank you!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

you could use tables for that. In contrast to lists, it offers easy ways to control the alignment. If you would consider that way, perhaps have a look at Creating tables in LaTeX for examples and explanation.

Stefan

[localghost]

As Stefan already suggested, a table would be the better choice.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,danish]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{array}

\begin{document}
  \begin{tabular}{@{}>{\textbullet}cll@{}}
    & Baumann, Zygmunt: & Sociologisk perspektiv. \\
    & Bjerg, Jens:      & Idehistorisk perspektiv. \\
    & Borgnakke, Karen: & P{\ae}dagogisk perspektiv.
  \end{tabular}
\end{document}

Note that I used the array package to automatically fill the first column with bullets. The @{} on both sides is to eliminate additional horizontal space caused by the length \tabcolsep which is inserted before and after a table column.

[svend_tveskaeg]

@Stefan,Thorsten:

Thank you very much! This is exactly what I want.