Text Formatting ⇒ horiz alignment in enumerate

[jaybz]

Is there any other way besides what I've done here to get the "(a)" to line up horizontally with the "(b)" and "(c)"? You'll notice it's slightly shifted to the left if you change the itemindent value to 0.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}[itemindent=-0.3mm,labelsep=5mm]
  \item
  \begin{enumerate}
    \item Nested item 1
    \item Nested item 2
    \item Nested item 2
  \end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

That's because of the different width of the letters. Default there's right alignment, you can change it to left align:

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\begin{enumerate}[align=left]

Stefan

[jaybz]

That just seams to push the "1." to the right and not effect the "(a)"
I'm Ok with just using the negative value. But I just noticed something. Is there a way to justify the text so it's the same length on each of the first lines? So:
"This is the first item in this list here on this page"
AND
"Now we have the second item in the list here on"
are the same width.

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    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{mathtools}
    \usepackage{enumitem}
    \begin{document}
    \begin{enumerate}[align=left]
      \item
      \begin{enumerate}
        \item This is the first item in this list here on this page\\
  it continues to the next line.
        \item Now we have the second item in the list here on\\
this page, this also continues to the next line.\\
      \end{enumerate}
    \end{enumerate}
    \end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

That just seams to push the "1." to the right and not effect the "(a)"

Use it as argument for the environment where the labels should be aligned, which means the inner with (a) instead of the outer.

Stefan

[jaybz]

Sorry I don't understand what you mean,

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It's meant this way:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}[labelsep=5mm]
  \item
  \begin{enumerate}[align=left]
    \item Nested item 1
    \item Nested item 2
    \item Nested item 2
  \end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

[jaybz]

Ok thank you, and is there a way to justify the text?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You could use \parbox or a minipage for that text.

Stefan

[jaybz]

Thank you.