Text Formatting ⇒ Changing Enumerate style in environment

[rill2503456]

I'm wondering if it's possible/easy to change the style of enumeration in the middle of the environment. Right now trying to do something like:

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\begin{enumerate}
\theenumi}{3.\arabic{enumi}
\item
\theenumi}{5.\arabic{enumi}
\item

With the hope of producing something to the effect of
3.1
5.2
I realize that I could of course just do \item[5.2], or start a new enumerate environment but those both seem extremely inelegant...

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

you could do it this way:

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
\renewcommand*{\theenumi}{3.\arabic{enumi}}
\item One
\renewcommand*{\theenumi}{5.\arabic{enumi}}
\item Two
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

And please post more complete code examples in a question, like this one.

Stefan

[rill2503456]

Sorry about that, I will make sure to do that next time. Anyways, the code worked perfectly, thanks! I'm curious though - what's the difference between renewcommand and renewcommand*? I don't think I've ever seen the latter

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Here's an explanation: What's the difference between \newcommand and \newcommand*

Btw. it would be great if you would mark the question as solved now. This helps us to see the still open questions. Just edit your first post in this thread (the question) and choose the checkmark symbol as topic icon.

Stefan