Text Formatting ⇒ List Indentation

[Willie]

Hello. I created a paragraph text which I want to be indented the same distance from both margins. However, because I put it in a list, it became too far away from the left margin, because of the list indentation.
How can I fix it to have equal indentation from both margins?
a minimal example is attached:

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,english]{article}
\usepackage[top=2.5cm,bottom=2.5cm,inner=2.5cm,outer=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
\emph{This text is not indented correctly (too far from the left)}:
	\medskip
	\begin{enumerate}
		\item  \blindtext
	\end{enumerate}
	\bigskip
\emph{This text is indented correctly, but not numbered (not enumerated list as I wanted)}:
	
	\blindtext
	
\end{document}

[localghost]

This is a job for the enumitem package.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[margin=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \emph{This text is now indented correctly}:
  \medskip
  \begin{enumerate}[leftmargin=*]
    \item  \blindtext
  \end{enumerate}

  \bigskip
  \emph{This text is indented correctly, but not numbered (not enumerated list as I wanted)}:
  \blindtext
\end{document}

Thorsten

[Willie]

good. thanks for the fast replying

why did you use

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

?

[localghost]

Just an automatism of mine. It's for enabling Type 1 Encoding (Cork Encoding). Gets important with regard to Postscript fonts. But in general provides better font qualitiy.