[latexrefman-commits] r400 - in /trunk: ChangeLog latex2e.texi

[jhefferon at domain.hid]

Author: jhefferon
Date: Thu Aug 13 23:16:00 2015
New Revision: 400

URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/latexrefman?rev=400&view=rev
Log:
add node \item

Modified:
    trunk/ChangeLog
    trunk/latex2e.texi

Modified: trunk/ChangeLog
URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/latexrefman/trunk/ChangeLog?rev=400&r1=399&r2=400&view=diff
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--- trunk/ChangeLog	(original)
+++ trunk/ChangeLog	Thu Aug 13 23:16:00 2015
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 2015-08-13  Jim Hefferon  <jhefferon at domain.hid>
 
-	* latex2e.texi (array): Fis description of optional position
+	* latex2e.texi (item): Add node for this command, subordinate to
+	the list node.
+
+2015-08-13  Jim Hefferon  <jhefferon at domain.hid>
+
+	* latex2e.texi (array): Fix description of optional position
 	argument for array.
 
 2015-08-12  Jim Hefferon  <jhefferon at domain.hid>

Modified: trunk/latex2e.texi
URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/latexrefman/trunk/latex2e.texi?rev=400&r1=399&r2=400&view=diff
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--- trunk/latex2e.texi	(original)
+++ trunk/latex2e.texi	Thu Aug 13 23:16:00 2015
@@ -2062,8 +2062,8 @@
 
 @example
 \begin at domain.hid@}
-\item @var{item1}
-\item @var{item2}
+\item [@var{first label}] text of first item
+\item [@var{second label}] text of second item
 ...
 \end at domain.hid@}
 @end example
@@ -2661,6 +2661,63 @@
 
 The width used for typesetting the list items is specified by
 @code{\linewidth} (@pxref{Page layout parameters}).
+
+ at menu
+* \item::          An entry in a list.
+ at end menu
+
+
+ at node \item
+
+Synopsis:
+
+ at example
+\item text of item
+ at end example
+
+or
+ at example
+\item[@var{optional label}] text of item
+ at end example
+
+An entry in a list.  The entries are prefixed by a label, whose default
+depends on the list type.  
+
+ at LaTeX{}'s default is that an @code{itemize} list is labelled with
+bullets.  In a @code{description} list each @code{\item} should use the
+ at var{optional label}, otherwise @LaTeX{} leaves the label empty.  By
+default an @code{enumerate} list at the outermost level (that is, not
+nested inside another list) is labelled with ascending arabic numbers
+followed by a period, as in @samp{1.}.  If an @code{enumerate} list is
+nested inside another to make a second level list, then by default it is
+labelled with a lower case letter inside parentheses, as in @samp{(a)}.
+At the third level by default it is labelled with a lower case roman
+numeral followed by a period, and at the fourth level of nesting it is
+labelled with an upper case letter followed by a period.
+
+Because the optional argument @var{optional label} is surrounded by
+square brackets at domain.hid{[} and @code{]}), to use square brackets
+inside the optional argument you must hide them inside curly braces, as
+in @code{\item[Close square bracket, @{]@}]}.  Similarly, to use an open
+square bracket as first character in the text of the item, also hide it
+inside curly braces.
+
+In this example the @code{enumerate} list has two items that use the
+default label and one that uses the optional label.
+
+ at example
+\begin at domain.hid@}
+  \item Moe
+  \item[sometimes] Shemp
+  \item Larry
+\end at domain.hid@}
+ at end example
+
+The first item is labelled @samp{1.}, the second item is labelled
+ at samp{sometimes}, and the third item is labelled @samp{2.} (note that,
+because of the optional label in the second item, the third item does
+not get a @samp{3.}).
+   
 
 
 @node math