Text Formatting ⇒ How do I uniformly typeset tabbing in enumerate?

[mado]

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I want to typeset the above picture. But, I have no idea on how to uniformly apply tabbing in enumerate. Can anyone help me?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi mado,

shall I type text and code for you?

Perhaps show your enumerate code with the sample text and I gladly help to improve it. I just don't type everything from zero. If you save your reader's time, you would get more and quicker answers.

Stefan

[mado]

Hi mado,

shall I type text and code for you?

Perhaps show your enumerate code with the sample text and I gladly help to improve it. I just don't type everything from zero. If you save your reader's time, you would get more and quicker answers.

Stefan

It seems you're the most present contributor to this website. If you felt offended, I'm sorry. I don't need something that exactly looks like that. But, I wanted to separate enumerate items from (premiss) and (from ...) as in the picture above.

Below is the sample LaTeX code.

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\documentclass[oneside,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist[enumerate,1]{label=\bfseries\Alph*,align=left,leftmargin=*,
  labelsep=1.5em}
\setlist[enumerate,2]{label= (\arabic*),leftmargin=*,align=right}

\usepackage{amsthm}
\theoremstyle{definition}
\newtheorem*{sol}{Solution}

\begin{document}
\section*{Exercises 5}
Which of the following arguments are valid? Where an argument is valid, pro-
vide a proof. Some of the examples are enthymemes that need repair.
\begin{enumerate}
\item No philosopher is illogical. Jones keeps making argumentative blunders.
No logical person keeps making argumentative blunders. All existentialists are
philosophers. So, Jones is not an existentialist.
\begin{enumerate}
\item No philosopher is illogical. (premiss)
\item\label{ok1} Jones keeps making argumentative blunders. (premiss)
\item\label{ok2} No logical person keeps making argumentative blunders.
(premiss)
\item All existentialists are philosophers. (premiss)
\item Jones is illogical (from~\ref{ok1} and~\ref{ok2})
\item Jones is not a philosopher.
\item So, Jones is not an existentialist.
\end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I'm not feeling offended, don't worry. I just like to see code to work with, as I don't have the time to construct code by myself for any screenshot I see in the forum. Working with real code is better.

I think this should be a tabular like environment. it's just not easy to mix enumerate and tabular. I will take a look.

Stefan

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi mado,

here is a suggestion with tabularx. I did not use enumerate but a self made counter.

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\documentclass[oneside,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist[enumerate,1]{label=\bfseries\Alph*,align=left,leftmargin=*,
  labelsep=1.5em}
\setlist[enumerate,2]{label= (\arabic*),leftmargin=*,align=right}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\newcounter{tab}
\renewcommand*{\thetab}{(\arabic{tab})}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
\item No philosopher is illogical. Jones keeps making argumentative blunders.
No logical person keeps making argumentative blunders. All existentialists are
philosophers. So, Jones is not an existentialist.

\setcounter{tab}{0}
\begin{tabularx}{0.75\textwidth}{>{\stepcounter{tab}\thetab}rXl}
  & No philosopher is illogical. &(premiss) \\
  & Jones keeps making argumentative blunders. &(premiss) \\
  & No logical person keeps making argumentative blunders.
      & (premiss) \\
  & All existentialists are philosophers. & (premiss) \\
  & Jones is illogical & (from~(2) and~(3))\\
  & Jones is not a philosopher. \\
  & So, Jones is not an existentialist.
\end{tabularx}
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

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It still has the disadvantage that \label and \ref don't work. This can be solved with some effort, but perhaps this already works for you.

Stefan

[Johannes_B]

It still has the disadvantage that \label and \ref don't work. This can be solved with some effort, but perhaps this already works for you.

\refstepcounter ;-)

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hello Johannes,

that's correct, it needs to be changed then. But I get a line break already by just including \label at the beginning of a tabular cell. And we need to set an anchor, otherwise the reference goes to the earlier anchor, which belongs to the outer enumerate environment.

Stefan

[Johannes_B]

Hm, seems i am doing something different.

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\documentclass[oneside,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist[enumerate,1]{label=\bfseries\Alph*,align=left,leftmargin=*,
labelsep=1.5em}
\setlist[enumerate,2]{label= (\arabic*),leftmargin=*,align=right}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\newcounter{tab}
\renewcommand*{\thetab}{(\arabic{tab})}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
	\item No philosopher is illogical. Jones keeps making argumentative blunders.
		No logical person keeps making argumentative blunders. All existentialists are
		philosophers. So, Jones is not an existentialist.

		\setcounter{tab}{0}
		\begin{tabularx}{0.75\textwidth}{>{\refstepcounter{tab}\thetab}rXl}
			\label{first}& No philosopher is illogical. &(premiss) \\
			\label{second}& Jones keeps making argumentative blunders. &(premiss) \\
			& No logical person keeps making argumentative blunders.
			& (premiss) \\
			& All existentialists are philosophers. & (premiss) \\
			& Jones is illogical & (from~(2) and~(3))\\
			& Jones is not a philosopher. from~\ref{first} and~\ref{second}\\
			& So, Jones is not an existentialist.
		\end{tabularx}
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Ah, this works. I had the \label together with the text in the second column, the column change is the problem. Though I still wonder why there's a line break then.

Stefan

[Johannes_B]

Though I still wonder why there's a line break then.

I don't want to dive the source right now, but ...

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\documentclass{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{cp{1cm}}
	l& \label{}No .  \\
\end{tabular}
\begin{tabular}{cp{1cm}}
	l& \hbox{}No .  \\
\end{tabular}
\fbox{
1	\parbox{1cm}{\hbox{} N}
}
\fbox{
1	\parbox{1cm}{\mbox{} N}
}
\end{document}