enumerate
environment, which is used to specify the
layout of the labels. The layout parameter contains an enumeration
type (‘1
’ for arabic numerals, ‘a
’ or ‘A
’
for alphabetic enumeration, and ‘i
’ or ‘I
’ for Roman
numerals), and things to act as decoration of the enumeration. So,
for example
starts a list whose labels run (a), (b), (c), …; while\usepackage{enumerate} ... \begin{enumerate}[(a)] \item ... ... \end{enumerate}
starts a list whose labels run I/, II/, III/, … The paralist package, whose primary purpose is compaction of lists, provides the same facilities for its\usepackage{enumerate} ... \begin{enumerate}[I/] \item ... ... \end{enumerate}
enumerate
-like environments.
If you need non-stereotyped designs, the enumitem package
gives you most of the flexibility you might want to design your own.
The silly roman example above could be achieved by:
Note that the ‘\usepackage{enumitem} ... \begin{enumerate}[label=\Roman{*}/] \item ... ... \end{enumerate}
*
’ in the key value stands for the list
counter at this level. You can also manipulate the format of
references to list item labels:
to make references to the list items format appear as (i), (ii), (iii), etc. The memoir class includes functions that match those in the enumerate package, and has similar functionality for\usepackage{enumitem} ... \begin{enumerate}[label=\Roman{*}/, ref=(\roman{*})] \item ... ... \end{enumerate}
itemize
lists.
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