Text Formatting ⇒ Using enumerate package with [1]

[latexforever]

Hello,

I would like to use the enumerate package to have such an output:

[1]: My first item,
[2]: My second item.

Inferring its manual (http://www.dd.chalmers.se/latex/Docs/PDF/enumerate.pdf), I would use such a partial code:

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\begin{enumerate}[[1]:]
\item My first item,
\item My second item.
\end{enumerate}

It does not work. I tried

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\begin{enumerate}[{[}1{]:}]
\item My first item,
\item My second item.
\end{enumerate}

with no success too.

Any suggestion would be much appreciated.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Luca,

the second code

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\begin{enumerate}[{[}1{]:}]

worked for me as well as

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\begin{enumerate}[{[1]:}]

Stefan

[latexforever]

Thanks for your answer, Stefan. That is possible that I made a typo when trying locally. It now works.

Is there a preferred (in the sense of the enumerate package, not in our sense) form?

Thanks.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Luca,

Is there a preferred (in the sense of the enumerate package, not in our sense) form?

regarding the enumerate-package, I don't see a reason to prefer a certain form as long as it's working.
But in general and in my opinion I would be careful when grouping by {...} to avoid changes in the kerning between characters, that's why I often prefer to use {word} instead of {w}ord for instance when I want to protect the first letter in this case.

Stefan

[gmedina]

You can also use the enumitem package:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}[label={[}\arabic*{]}:]
  \item first item.
  \item second item.
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

[latexforever]

You can also use the enumitem package:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}[label={[}\arabic*{]}:]
  \item first item.
  \item second item.
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

Pretty good! I will check it too. Thanks.

Hi Luca,

Is there a preferred (in the sense of the enumerate package, not in our sense) form?

regarding the enumerate-package, I don't see a reason to prefer a certain form as long as it's working.
But in general and in my opinion I would be careful when grouping by {...} to avoid changes in the kerning between characters, that's why I often prefer to use {word} instead of {w}ord for instance when I want to protect the first letter in this case.

Ok. Thanks.

[rf]

if you have

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\let\lbrack[
\let\rbrack]

and then

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\begin{enumerate}[\lbrack1{\rbrack:}]

you get the correct result.

tex doesn't do bracket matching, so there's a lot of requests like
this

[latexforever]

Thanks.