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ghss
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enumitem | Multi-lined Items in enumerated List

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Hello,

I am using package enumitem to generate the following list as in the attachment using this code

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% long line in Enumitems
\documentclass[10pt,twoside]{book}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}[label={\it Problem \arabic* (my problem)}:,leftmargin=*,labelindent=0pt]
\item This is first line \\
This is second line.
\item short line
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}
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Is it possible to print the the second line in first item just below "Problem 1". This means I need "this is second line" with no indent.

thanks
ghss
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enumitem | Multi-lined Items in enumerated List

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Perhaps something like this.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}[label={\textit{Problem \arabic* (my problem)}:},fullwidth]
\item This is first line \\
This is second line.
\item short line
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}
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Re: enumitem | Multi-lined Items in enumerated List

Post by ghss »

Thanks Thorsten.

And if i want to indent whole text in enumitem with some margin (say \parindent) with the same feature in my first post i.e. text in second line just start below the label of item.

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enumitem | Multi-lined Items in enumerated List

Post by localghost »

In this case you have to specify a left margin that is slightly bigger than the width of the label.

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\documentclass[11pt,fleqn]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\noindent Preceding text.
\begin{enumerate}[label={\textit{Problem \arabic* (my problem)}:},leftmargin=13em]
\item This is first line \\
This is second line.
\item short line
\end{enumerate}
Following text.
\end{document}
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