General ⇒ \newenvironment not going to new line

[guest]

Hi,
I'm trying to setup a custom document for my maths assignments. I've modified one of the internet but it's not giving me the output I'm aiming for.

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\newenvironment{problem}[2][Problem]{\begin{trivlist} 
\item[\hskip \labelsep {\bfseries #1} \hskip \labelsep {\bfseries #2.}]}{\end{trivlist}}

\newenvironment{question}[2][Question]
{
\begin{trivlist}

\item[\hskip \labelsep {\bfseries #1}\hskip \labelsep {\bfseries #2.}] 
\\
}

{\end{trivlist}}

Basically I want my document to output the following:
Question 1

Problem (a)

When given this:

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\begin{question}{1}
\begin{problem}{(a)}

but I cannot get it to do so! even when using this:

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\begin{question}{1}
\\
\begin{problem}{(a)}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the forum!

Just a small advice: even if your code snippets may be theoretically sufficient to describe the problem, the chance to get a solution would be higher if you would post a minimal working example, i.e. some compilable code which could be tested and improved. Experience shows, that compilable examples get answers and fixed most of the time, because it's easy to try, whereas often snippets remain untested and unfixed. Making it easy for answerers is a good idea.

Stefan

[guest]

Okay thanks !

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
 
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} 
\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,amssymb}
 
\newcommand{\N}{\mathbb{N}}
\newcommand{\Z}{\mathbb{Z}}
 
\newenvironment{problem}[2][Problem]{\begin{trivlist} 
\item[\hskip \labelsep {\bfseries #1} \hskip \labelsep {\bfseries #2.}]}{\end{trivlist}}

\newenvironment{question}[2][Question]{\begin{trivlist}
\item[\hskip \labelsep {\bfseries #1}\hskip \labelsep {\bfseries #2.}]}{\end{trivlist}}


\begin{document}
 
\begin{question}{1} %You can use theorem, exercise, problem, or question here.  Modify x.yz to be whatever number you are proving
\begin{problem}{(a)}
\end{problem}

\end{document}

Compiling this you'll see that Question 1. and Problem(a) are on the same line where I'd like an automatic new line after Question 1. is written.

[cgnieder]

Adding \mbox{}\\ at the appropriate place should work. minimal working example ensures that there is something typeset (even if it has zero width) so that a line can be ended.

However, you can have the whole thing with a more convenient interface:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsthm}

\newtheoremstyle{question}
  {\topsep} % Space above
  {\topsep} % Space below
  {} % Body font
  {} % Indent amount
  {\bfseries} % Theorem head font
  {.\newline} % Punctuation after theorem head
  {0em} % Space after theorem head
  {} % Theorem head spec (can be left empty, meaning `normal')
\theoremstyle{question}
\newtheorem{question}{Question}

\newtheoremstyle{problem}
  {\topsep} % Space above
  {\topsep} % Space below
  {} % Body font
  {} % Indent amount
  {\bfseries} % Theorem head font
  {} % Punctuation after theorem head
  {.5em} % Space after theorem head
  {} % Theorem head spec (can be left empty, meaning `normal')
\theoremstyle{problem}
\newtheorem{problem}{Problem}
\renewcommand\theproblem{(\alph{problem})}

\begin{document}

\begin{question}
 This is a question
 \begin{problem}
  This is the first problem
 \end{problem}
\end{question}

\end{document}

For details please refer to the amsthm documentation.

Regards

[guest]

Cool! Thanks.