In the enumerate environment, an item begins with "[Co]image is…" LaTex interprets the square bracket as a customized bullet symbol. How can I write [ without this glitch?
[Tex/LaTex] Enumerate sentence beginning with square bracket
#enumerate
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The code for creating the boxes can be found in beamerbaseauxtemplates.sty. You can wrap it in a new command so you can use it outside enumerations:
\documentclass[mathserif,xcolor=svgnames]{beamer}
\setbeamertemplate{enumerate items}[square]
\begin{document}
\newcommand\boxednumber[1]
{%
\hbox{%
\usebeamerfont*{item projected}%
\usebeamercolor[bg]{item projected}%
\vrule width2.25ex height1.85ex depth.4ex%
\hskip-2.25ex%
\hbox to2.25ex{%
\hfil%
\color{fg}#1%
\hfil}%
}%
}
\begin{frame}{Example}
\begin{enumerate}
\item Hello there
\end{enumerate}
Let's talk about item \boxednumber{1}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Your problem is that latex is interpreting your square brackets as an argument to \item (even though there is a space in between) and using the text inside as the item label instead of preceding your other text with the square brackets.
You can fix this by adding curly braces around the square brackets:
\item {[Short term]} blah blah
which will produce:
1. [Short term] blah blah
Don't put a tilde (~) between the item and the brackets, because this would add an extra space in the formatted text.
\item~[Short term] blah blah
will produce
1. [Short term] blah blah
foo foo foo
Best Answer
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