Text Formatting ⇒ Itemized list

[mas]

I am trying to create an enumerated/itemized list which should look as below :

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  1. Item 1          3. Item 3 
  2. Item 2          4. Item 4

I vaguely recall of having seen a package for doing this and cannot find it now Looked at various search terms and still came up with nothing.

Can someone point me the package which does this sort of thing?

Regards,

[mas]

Sorry for replying to my own post. The package multienum does the above sort of list. But, I did not see a way of getting itemized list in the documentation.

If there are other possibilities, I am still interested to learn.

Regards,

[frabjous]

Would it work just to do a list inside a multicolumn environment? I'd suggest using the multicol environment for balanced columns, which you could apply only to the list:

E.g.:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-2] % generate text before list

\begin{multicols}{2}
\begin{enumerate}[noitemsep]
\item First item
\item Second item
\item Third item
\item Fourth item
\end{enumerate}
\end{multicols}

\lipsum[3-4] % generate text after list

\end{document}

This should work just as well with itemize rather than enumerate.

[gmedina]

Well, I was going to suggest exactly what frabjous did, so there's no point in duplicating suggestions.

However, if mas is still interested in using the features provided by the multienum package but being able to obtain itemized lists, the following idea could be useful. I borrowed some code from multienum.sty and defined a new command (\multiitem) that can be used to produce an itemized list.

The code with an example:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multienum}

\newcommand\multiitem{%
\renewcommand{\itemx}[1]{\parbox[t]%
  {\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep%
  \parbox[t]{\remainx}{\raggedright ##1}\smallskip}
\renewcommand{\itemxx}[2]{\parbox[t]%
  {\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{.5\remainxx}{\raggedright ##1}\hfill\parbox[t]%
  {\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{0.5\remainxx}{\raggedright ##2}\smallskip}
\renewcommand{\itemxxx}[3]{\parbox[t]%
  {\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep%
  \parbox[t]{.3333\remainxxx}{\raggedright ##1}\hfill\parbox[t]%
  {\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep%
  \parbox[t]{0.3333\remainxxx}{\raggedright ##2}\hfill%
  \parbox[t]{\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep%
  \parbox[t]{0.3333\remainxxx}{\raggedright ##3}\smallskip}
\renewcommand{\itemxxxx}[4]{\parbox[t]%
  {\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{.25\remainxxxx}{\raggedright ##1}\hfill\parbox[t]%
  {\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{0.25\remainxxxx}{\raggedright ##2}\hfill%
  \parbox[t]{\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{0.25\remainxxxx}{\raggedright ##3}\hfill%
  \parbox[t]{\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{0.25\remainxxxx}{\raggedright ##4}\smallskip}
\renewcommand{\itemxox}[2]{\parbox[t]%
  {\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{\remainxox}{\raggedright ##1}\hfill%
  \parbox[t]{\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{0.3333\remainxxx}{\raggedright ##2}\smallskip}
\renewcommand{\itemxxo}[2]{\parbox[t]%
  {\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{0.3333\remainxxx}{\raggedright ##1}\hfill%
  \parbox[t]{\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{\remainxox}{\raggedright ##2}\smallskip}
\renewcommand{\itemxoxx}[3]{\parbox[t]%
  {\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{\remainxoxx}{\raggedright ##1}\hfill%
  \parbox[t]{\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{0.25\remainxxxx}{\raggedright ##2}\hfill%
  \parbox[t]{\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{0.25\remainxxxx}{\raggedright ##3}\smallskip}
  \renewcommand{\itemxxox}[3]{\parbox[t]%
  {\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{.25\remainxxxx}{\raggedright ##1}\hfill%
  \parbox[t]{\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{\remainxoxx}{\raggedright ##2}\hfill%
  \parbox[t]{\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{0.25\remainxxxx}{\raggedright ##3}\smallskip}
\renewcommand{\itemxxxo}[3]{\parbox[t]%
  {\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{.25\remainxxxx}{\raggedright ##1}\hfill%
  \parbox[t]{\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{.25\remainxxxx}{\raggedright ##2}\hfill%
  \parbox[t]{\labelwidth}{\hfill$\bullet$}\hskip\labelsep
  \parbox[t]{\remainxoxx}{\raggedright ##3}\smallskip}
}

\begin{document}

A multi-itemized list:
\begin{multienumerate}
\multiitem
\mitemxx{first item.}{second item.}
\mitemxxxx{third item.}{fourth item.}{fifth item.}{sixth item.}
\end{multienumerate}

A multi-enumerated list:
\begin{multienumerate}
\mitemxx{first item.}{second item.}
\mitemxxxx{third item.}{fourth item.}{fifth item.}{sixth item.}
\end{multienumerate}

\end{document}

[mas]

Thanks for the suggestions.

Regards.