Text Formatting ⇒ Changing the way enumerate looks

[singlebinary]

I am a new user and I came to the forum because I am in the middle of writing my Ph.D thesis. It is quite likely I will visit this forum in the next few weeks and ask lots of questions! Thank you all in advance!

I would like one of my subsection to begin with the following:

5.2.1 Step 1. Modeling the PSF

These following steps carry out the modeling of the PSF:
1.1 Co-align the telluric standard
1.2 Blah Blah

However the enumerate function does not allow me to have "1.1" or "1.2" It simply states it as "1" and "2". I would like to have 1.1 because it goes with the Step 1.

Could you please help!

Thank you!

[frabjous]

Try the enumitem package like this:

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\documentclass{article} % or whatever
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\noindent These following steps carry out the modeling of the PSF: 
\begin{enumerate}[label={1.\arabic*},nolistsep,leftmargin=*]
\item Co-align the telluric standard
\item Blah Blah 
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

It would be better to use the counter for "Step 1", whatever that is, rather than hard-coding the "1." leader, but I don't know what counter (if any) you're using for that. Perhaps use label={\arabic{subsection}.\arabic*} instead?

[singlebinary]

Thank you for your suggestion. It worked however the indent seems to have been gone! As you can see, I removed the "\noindent" suggested by you and added \indent but even then it does not seem to work. I would like to have the indent as it look clear with it than without. No, I have not used any counter for Step 1. Here is my code:

\subsection{Step 1. Modeling the PSF}

These following steps carry out the modeling of the PSF:

\begin{enumerate}[label={1.\arabic*},nolistsep,leftmargin=*]
\item Co-align telluric star ($\mathcal{T}$) with telluric model ($\mathcal{M}$)
\item Suggest a first guess of the PSF using Least Square Deconvolution of $\mathcal{T}$ with $\mathcal{M}$
\item Begin PSF modeling by the use of five Gaussians
\item Change line-depths in $\mathcal{M}$
\item Redo steps 1.2 -1.4 until the best fit between the $\mathcal{T}$ and $\mathcal{M}$ is achieved
\end{enumerate}

[gmedina]

...It worked however the indent seems to have been gone!..

Do you mean the indentation of the items? If so, replace

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\begin{enumerate}[label={1.\arabic*},nolistsep,leftmargin=*]

with, for example,

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\begin{enumerate}[label={1.\arabic*},nolistsep,leftmargin=1cm]

in the code provided by frabjous (change 1cm to the value that suits your needs).

[singlebinary]

gmedina and frabjous, thank you so much!!! The indentation and the numbering work! You both rock!