General ⇒ Enumerate in other environments

[Functormorphism]

I'm putting together some exams, and I'm playing around with enumerate. Enumerate is a fantastically flexible environment and gets along well with multicol nicely. However, multicol isn't exactly built to do what I'm trying to do with it. I really should be using tabular. However, enumerate does *not* get along with tabular.

What should I be using with tabular to stick a number (letter) in each spot? Should I just go back to a basic \Alph command?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Functormorphism,

the enumerate environment can be used inside the tabular environment, for instance in a p column:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{l|p{2cm}}
  Test &
    \begin{enumerate}
      \item One
      \item Two
    \end{enumerate}
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

Perhaps some lengths (space above etc.) could be adjusted, but it works generallly.

Stefan

[Functormorphism]

Can the environment extend across multiple columns and rows?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Perhaps if you use \multicolumn or \multirow.

Here are examples and explanations for these commands: Creating Tables in LaTeX.

But if you want to use different rows or columns you would have to construct it by yourself using a self-defined counter,

Stefan

[balf]

What kind of things are you trying to do? Have an enumerate environment displayed over several columns and rows (such as answers to exercises, if you see what I mean)?

B.A.