Text Formatting ⇒ Minipage is not working

[farmerd]

Hello,

I am somewhat new to Latex in that I used it 5 years ago. I never used minipage but I am trying to use it now. I went through some previous posts and found one example using a figure next to some equation. Anyway, the code was very similar to mine, I tried to apply it, although no changes were really needed. I will post my simplified code below. The code outputs a list up to item 3, but that is it, no enumerated split page. It should create a split page a and b. By the way is "enumerate" obsolete, I saw something on this site that said as much, under "obsolete packages and document classes". As I digress, here is the code.

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\documentstyle[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}

\item The first item.

\item The second item.

\item The third item is an enumerated minipage.
	\begin{enumerate}
		\begin{minipage}[b][60mm]
			\item Item a
		\end{minipage}

		\begin{minipage}[b][60mm]
			\item Item b
		\end{minipage}
	\end{enumerate}

\end{enumerate}
\end{document}      

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi farmerd,

welcome to the board!

• Don't use \documentstyle, this is obsolete, use \documentclass instead.
• For the width argument of minipage, use curly braces instead of square brackets. Curly braces are for mandatory arguments, such as the width here, brackets are for optional arguments, such as the alignment here.
• The enumerate envirnonment is not obsolete. There are packages which extend this enviroment, such as the enumitem package.

Here is your code, changed to be working:

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}

\item The first item.

\item The second item.

\item The third item is an enumerated minipage.
   \begin{enumerate}
      \begin{minipage}[b]{60mm}
         \item Item a
      \end{minipage}

      \begin{minipage}[b]{60mm}
         \item Item b
      \end{minipage}
   \end{enumerate}

\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

Stefan

[localghost]

[…] By the way is "enumerate" obsolete, I saw something on this site that said as much, under "obsolete packages and document classes". […]

As the quoted topic title says, it's about about packages and document classes that are considered obsolete. Hence it lists the enumerate package, and not the enumerate environment.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[farmerd]

Stefan,

Thank you for your reply. I made the change from \documentstyle to \documentclass, but I still get the same output. My version of texniccenter is "1 Beta 7.01 - unstable('Greengrass')". I downloaded it sometime ago maybe 7 - 10 years back. I never noticed the unstable descriptor before and it seemed to work for other things, like writing a thesis. I am not sure why this won't work as the code is really straight forward, I am stumped.

[farmerd]

As the quoted topic title says, it's about about packages and document classes that are considered obsolete. Hence it lists the enumerate package, and not the enumerate environment.

Is there an easy way to tell whether it is a package or an environment, or do you just know through experience?

farmerd

[localghost]

Is there an easy way to tell whether it is a package or an environment, or do you just know through experience? […]

It is both. But only the macro package is obsolete and superseded by the enumitem package, which not only customizes the enumerate environment.