[texhax] Nested enumeration.

[Rolf Turner]

On 20/12/2007, at 1:17 PM, Eduardo wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 December 2007 17:54, Rolf Turner wrote:
>> I want to produce a nested set of lists numbered in an ``i.j'' style.
>> I.e. I want something like
>>
>> 	1. Blah.
>>             1.1 blah
>>             1.2 blah blah
>>
>> 	2. Blah Blah.
>> 	    2.1 blah
>>             2.2 blah blah
>>             2.3 blah blah blah
>>
>> 	3. Blah Blah Blah
>> 		<etc>
>>
>
> \usepackage{enumitem}

That's exactly what I needed; thank you very much.

To elaborate slightly for those who, like myself, struggle with these  
things:

After putting \usepackage{enumitem} in the preamble, add the command:

\setenumerate[2]{label=\theenumi.\arabic*}

and that will give numbering of nested enumerate environments exactly as
I wanted.  Note that endless varieties of labelling styles may be  
obtained
in a similar fashion.  The documentation file enumitem.pdf gives lots of
detail and is lucidly written.  (The author, whose first language is  
apparently
Spanish, apologises quite unnecessarily for his English, which is  
actually
excellent.)

The argument ``2'' inside the square brackets refers to the second level
(inner) enumerate environment; ``\theenumi'' refers to the counter  
for the
outer enumerate environment which is called ``enumi''.

Thanks again.

		cheers,

			Rolf Turner

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