General ⇒ Numbering items

[Sekantombi]

Dear Colleagues,

I want to produce automatic numbering for items, but preceded with a consistent string.

So far my research on numbering has pulled out things about LaTex counters --- applied to headings, sections et cetera, but not quite the "automatic numbering of things that follow a string" that I have in mind.

Partial success hacking the numberpars package, but this entails some formatting constraints.

Similar results with enumerate ... unless there's some way to prefix "\item" with a string?

Don't want to have to number these things by hand --- time-consuming and too much opportunity for error.

Any advice?

[gmedina]

The enumitem package could be useful. Juanjo showed another approach in this thread.

A little example using enumitem:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}

text text text text text
\begin{enumerate}[label=string--\arabic*,leftmargin=*]
  \item First item
  \item Second item
\end{enumerate}
text text text text text

\end{document}

Perhaps describing exactly what you desire to achieve, we could give you more effective help.

[Sekantombi]

Thanks for your answer, gmedina, especially your last piece of advice!

What I have in mind is a list of recommendations.

So I am already applying \newcommand to items under enumerate …

In addition …

My objective is to do "Recommendation (number)", where number is set and incremented automatically.

So this is a little different from re\defining enumi et cetera.

Any further advice?

Cheers,

[gmedina]

...What I have in mind is a list of recommendations...My objective is to do "Recommendation (number)", where number is set and incremented automatically...

My first suggestion then is still valid.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}

text text text text text
\begin{enumerate}[label=\textbf{Recommendation \arabic*}.,leftmargin=*]
  \item First recommendation with some text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text.
  \item Second recommendation.
\end{enumerate}
text text text text text

\end{document}

Refer to the enumitem package documentation to see all the options it offers.

[Sekantombi]

Thanks Gmedina ---

That makes perfect sense.

Apologies for not reading your post with a little more diligence.