Text Formatting ⇒ Text on same line as enumeration

[juliusmeinl]

Hello everybody
I am making an exercise sheet for my maths students, and I'm having a problem with the enumeration.
I made an enumeration throughout several columns (using multicol). I would now like to have some text on the same line as the enumeration, so for instance the exercise number. I would like it to look like on the attached sheet. I tried having the exercise number in a separate column, but then it is indented and the different 'a)'s of the different exercises are not below each other depending on the number per exercise. I also tried using margin note, but that did not work either.
Many thanks, all help is appreciated.

[localghost]

Please provide the code that produced the output in form of a self-contained and minimal example to give an adequate problem description.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[juliusmeinl]

There you go:

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,titlepage]{article}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{ucs}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{marginnote}
\usepackage{multienum}
\usepackage[margin=0.5in]{geometry}
\author{Alex Schindler}
\title{Terme umformen}

\begin{document}

\renewcommand{\labelenumi}{\bfseries \alph{enumi})}


\section*{Terme umformen 1}
Fasse die Terme zusammen.
\vspace*{0.5cm}
\newline {\bf 1}
\setlength{\columnsep}{2pt}
\begin{multicols}{4}
\begin{enumerate}
\item $a \cdot a + b\cdot b$
\item $2 \cdot x \cdot x + x^2$
\item $(3x)^2$
\item $(abc)^2$
\end{enumerate}
\end{multicols}

\end{document}

[localghost]

Please always check your examples for minimal content as you have been asked for. Your example loads many packages that are superfluous in this case. And we would appreciate if you tag code as such by using the corresponding button from the list above the input field when composing a message.

You are already loading enumitem. So, why don't you use it?

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\documentclass[ngerman]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{selinput}
\SelectInputMappings{
  adieresis={ä},
  germandbls={ß}
}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[inline]{enumitem}

\begin{document}
  \section*{Terme umformen I}
    Fasse die Terme zusammen.
    \begin{enumerate}[fullwidth]
      \item
        \begin{enumerate*}[label={\alph*)},font=\bfseries,itemjoin=\qquad]
          \item $a\cdot a+b\cdot b$
          \item $2\cdot x\cdot x+x^2$
          \item $(3x)^2$
          \item $(abc)^2$
        \end{enumerate*}
      \item
        \begin{enumerate*}[label={\alph*)},font=\bfseries,itemjoin=\qquad]
          \item $7a\cdot 3ab$
          \item $11fgh\cdot 12ghk$
          \item $4cd\cdot 3de\cdot 5ef$
          \item $a(a+b)+2\cdot b\cdot b-a^2$
        \end{enumerate*}
    \end{enumerate}
\end{document}

For details consult the package manual. On the command line you have direct access.

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texdoc enumitem

Remarks:

• For documents in German you should give the appropriate language option ngerman to babel.
• It is suggestive to use the classes from KOMA-Script (see above example).

[juliusmeinl]

Thank you very much, that was very useful!
I do not have that much experience with enumitem (and with LaTeX in general), but it's getting better almost daily ...