Text Formatting ⇒ Enumerated List with Math Expression in Item Labels

[mayngontay]

Hi,

I would like to have a numbered list like this.

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I use the following code:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\begin{document}
 \begin{enumerate}[$({q}_1)$]
  \setcounter{enumi}{9}
  \item first item.
  \item second item.
  \item third item.
  \item fourth item.
  \item fifth item.
 \end{enumerate}
\end{document}

But the above code generates the following result which is not my expectation (look at the number).

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Please help, thanks.

[localghost]

The enumerate package is considered obsolete and is superseded by enumitem. Then the solution becomes quite easy.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}
  \begin{enumerate}[label={$(q_{\arabic*})$}]
    \setcounter{enumi}{9}
    \item first item.
    \item second item.
    \item third item.
    \item fourth item.
    \item fifth item.
  \end{enumerate}
\end{document}

Click on "Open in writeLaTeX" in the head of the above code box to see the resulting output instantly.


Thorsten