Text Formatting ⇒ Beginning the count of an enumerated list at 0

[thedoctor818]

I have a doc that has several enumerated lists. For most of those, I wish for the counting to start at 0, i.e. I want the first number of the list to be 0, rather than 1. However, there is one list (corresponding to the list beginning with `Season 30B') that I would like to be counted in the `usual' way; i.e. with the count starting at 1.

Also, on a slightly different topic, though related, is it possible to typeset an itemize list with empty square boxes instead of the default filled in square boxes?

Below is a sample code of what I currently have for question number 1.

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
\begin{document}

\chapter{The Tenth Doctor}
\section{Season 30.}
\begin{enumerate}
\item Voyage of the Damned
\item Partners in Crime
\item The Fires of Pompeii
\item The Sontaran Strategem
\item The Poison Sky
\item The Doctor's Daughter
\item The Unicorn and the Wasp
\item Silence in the Library
\item Forest of the Dead
\item Midnight
\item Turn Left
\item The Stolen Earth
\item Journey's End
\end{enumerate}

\section{Season 30B.}
\begin{enumerate}
\item The Next Doctor
\item Planet of the Dead
\item The Waters of Mars
\item The End of Time--Part I
\item The End of Time--Part II
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

So, for the 1st list, I would like the count to start at 0, & for the 2nd, to start at 1. I have many other lists, & for all the rest of them--I want the count to also start at 0.

Thanks in advance for the help.
-the Doctor

[gmedina]

Hi,

both problems can be easily solved by using the enumitem package. An example:

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{enumitem}

% the new itemize-like list using a square
\newlist{sqitemize}{itemize}{10}
\setlist[sqitemize]{label=$\square$}

\begin{document}

\chapter{The Tenth Doctor}
\section{Season 30.}

\begin{enumerate}[start=0]
\item Voyage of the Damned
\item Partners in Crime
\item The Fires of Pompeii
\item The Sontaran Strategem
\item The Poison Sky
\item The Doctor's Daughter
\item The Unicorn and the Wasp
\item Silence in the Library
\item Forest of the Dead
\item Midnight
\item Turn Left
\item The Stolen Earth
\item Journey's End
\end{enumerate}

\section{Season 30B.}
\begin{enumerate}
\item The Next Doctor
\item Planet of the Dead
\item The Waters of Mars
\item The End of Time--Part I
\item The End of Time--Part II
\end{enumerate}

\begin{sqitemize}
\item The Next Doctor
\item Planet of the Dead
\item The Waters of Mars
\item The End of Time--Part I
\item The End of Time--Part II
\end{sqitemize}

\end{document}

[thedoctor818]

Thanks a lot gmedina, that is exactly what i was looking for.

[localghost]

Then please be so kind and mark the topic accordingly.


Thorsten

[thedoctor818]

Thorsten, I am sorry that I did not mark this post appropriately at the time. However, now I have a new question, that still is relevant & related to the original question. I am trying to typeset an an enumerated list with the aforementioned sqitemized lists embedded within it, and am getting no results.

The error code says:"Undefined control sequence."

Below is a sample of what I have tried.

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[left=1.75cm, right=1.50cm, top=1.50cm, bottom=3.00cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{enumitem}

% the new itemize-like list using a square
\newlist{sqitemize}{itemize}{10}
\setlist[sqitemize]{label=$\square$}

\title{LITURGICAL MUSIC LIST.}
\author{The Doctor}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}

\section{The Month of January.}
\begin{sqitemize}
  \item 06 JANUARY--THE THEOPHANY OF OUR LORD, GOD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST.
    \begin{sqitemize}
      \item First Antiphon
      \item Second Antiphon
      \item Apolytikion
      \item Kontakion
        \begin{itemize}
          \sqitem CCCVariant
          \sqitem Samopodoben
        \end{itemize}
        \item Prokeimenon \& Alleluia
        \item Hymn to the Theotokos
    \end{sqitemize}
\end{sqitemize}

Before, the first set of list enviornments were just itemize, I think. Thanks for any help I can get on this.

[torbjorn t.]

First, to use the symbol \square you have to load the amssymb package. Second, replace \sqitem with \item, the former isn't defined. (Third, you had forgotten the \end{document} in your code.)

This compiles:

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage[left=1.75cm, right=1.50cm, top=1.50cm, bottom=3.00cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{enumitem}

% the new itemize-like list using a square
\newlist{sqitemize}{itemize}{10}
\setlist[sqitemize]{label=$\square$}

\title{LITURGICAL MUSIC LIST.}
\author{The Doctor}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}

\section{The Month of January.}
\begin{sqitemize}
  \item 06 JANUARY--THE THEOPHANY OF OUR LORD, GOD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST.
    \begin{sqitemize}
      \item First Antiphon
      \item Second Antiphon
      \item Apolytikion
      \item Kontakion
        \begin{itemize}
          \item CCCVariant
          \item Samopodoben
        \end{itemize}
        \item Prokeimenon \& Alleluia
        \item Hymn to the Theotokos
    \end{sqitemize}
\end{sqitemize}
\end{document}

[thedoctor818]

Thanks for your help. That was exactly what I needed.

[torbjorn t.]

You're welcome.

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[Montag]

Just a sidenote: If I understood the initial request correctly, the enumitem-package isn't really needed. A simple

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\begin{enumerate}\setcounter{enumi}{0}
\item test
\item abc
\end{enumerate}

also works. Of course, for a lot of lists it's much more comfortable to use enumitem.

[thedoctor818]

Thanks for straightening up my confusion on letting you all know my question has indeed been answered.