Text Formatting ⇒ sublist in a list

[ghostanime2001]

How do you create a list such as 1. a) ..2. a) ..etc.. where the letter and the number are perfectly aligned relative to each other?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I recommend using the enumitem package. Follow the link to see the documentation for alignment/margin/indentation options.

Stefan

[ghostanime2001]

I still don't understand how to apply the code

[torbjorn t.]

Is this what you want?

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}
  \item Item
    \begin{enumerate}[label=\alph*)]
      \item Subitem
      \item Subitem
    \end{enumerate}
  \item Item
    \begin{enumerate}[label=\alph*)]
      \item Subitem
      \item Subitem
    \end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

[ghostanime2001]

the a) should be aligned with the number and not have so much horizontal spacing between the number and the letter.

[torbjorn t.]

It's quite easy to figure out how to do that from the manual.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}
  \item Item
    \begin{enumerate}[label=\alph*),leftmargin=0pt,topsep=0pt]
      \item Subitem
      \item Subitem
    \end{enumerate}
  \item Item
    \begin{enumerate}[label=\alph*)]
      \item Subitem
      \item Subitem
    \end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

I added the necessary parameters for the first sublist only. You can define a new list type with these features, see section 2.2 of the manual.

[ghostanime2001]

I did not mean it vertically spaced. I meant that a) and 1. should be aligned horizontally looking literally like "1. a)" as if you are doing a math problem.

[ghostanime2001]

And the manual just says "These are equivalent to the well known list parameters," after those commands above. It does not say anything about what they do! Maybe those commands are explained in detail in another package. I don't know..

[torbjorn t.]

I did not mean it vertically spaced. I meant that a) and 1. should be aligned horizontally looking literally like "1. a)" as if you are doing a math problem.

Sorry, that wasn't entirely obvious from what you wrote. I can't really think of a good way of doing that right now, perhaps someone else has a suggestion.