General ⇒ Renewing the enumerate environment and keep nesting support.

[DoubleJ]

Hello,

In my document I want to change the spacing of the enumerate environment, in order to do so, I renew the environment:

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\renewenvironment{enumerate}%
{\begin{list}{\arabic{enumi}.}%
	  {\setlength{\leftmargin}{2.5em}%
	   \setlength{\itemsep}{-\parsep}%
	   \setlength{\topsep}{-\parskip}%%
	   \usecounter{enumi}}%
 }{\end{list}}

This makes the default enumerate list appear as I want to, however the problem is that nested lists are not supported anymore because the same counter is used for all the nested lists too. How can I renew this list environment such that if I am in a nested list, I use another counter:

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\begin{enumerate} % Uses enumi
	 \item An item
	 	 \begin{enumerate} % Uses enumii
	 	 \item Etc.
% ..... Close tags and so on

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
JJ

[Johannes_B]

Have a look at the enumitem-package.

[DoubleJ]

Have a look at the enumitem-package.

This is not the solution that I am looking for. I tried this package and this conflicted a lot with other packages I use, I don't know exactly which. The packages are required as they are part of a template we use to write reports.

[localghost]

This is not the solution that I am looking for. I tried this package and this conflicted a lot with other packages I use, I don't know exactly which. The packages are required as they are part of a template we use to write reports.

The exact purpose of building a self-contained and minimal example is to find out this conflict. Furthermore it would give us an adequate problem description. So please reduce the problem to only relevant code and present it here.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten