First of all, notice that you don't have a paragraph break after the itemize
environment, therefore there will be no indentation no matter whether you use \indent
or not.
The first thing to fix is to add a paragraph there:
\section{The Section}
\begin{itemize}
\item \textit{good}
\item \textit{bad}
\end{itemize}
In this section....
![first](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MiemU.gif)
Now, you get indentation but it's probably not what you wanted. You may not like that the bullets are also indented. This is the default style for itemize
. If you want to change it, the easiest way is probably to use the enumitem
package:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\section{The Section}
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=\parindent]
\item \textit{good}
\item \textit{bad}
\end{itemize}
In this section....
\end{document}
![second](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0eFCQ.gif)
This looks almost the same as your (Word, I presume?) document, except that the bullet itself is not left-aligned with the margin. If you want that as well (I advise against it), you need some more tweaking:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\section{The Section}
\hrule\vskip 6pt
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=\parindent, labelwidth=\parindent, labelsep=0pt, align=left]
\item \textit{good}
\item \textit{bad}
\end{itemize}
In this section....
\end{document}
![third](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mECow.gif)
but notice that the section number does not look exactly aligned with the left margin either.
Maybe you want one of these?
\documentclass{amsart}
\usepackage[showframe]{geometry}%
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}[label=\textbf{Exercise \arabic*.}, wide = 0pt, itemsep=1.5ex]
\item ajksdjkldjslasdjklasd
\begin{enumerate}[label = \textbf{\alph*.},wide =0pt]
\item ajhsdjajksdasdajksd ajhsdjajks dasdajksd ajhsdjajksd asdajksd ajhsdjajks dasdajksd dasdajksd ajhsdjajksd asdajksd ajhsdjajks dasdajksd
\end{enumerate}
\item ajksdkasjdadsasd
\end{enumerate}
\bigskip
\begin{enumerate}[label = \textbf{Exercise \arabic*.}, wide=0pt, itemsep=1.5ex]
\item ajksdjkldjslasdjklasd
\begin{enumerate}[label = \textbf{\alph*.},wide=0pt, labelsep=0.15em, leftmargin=*]
\item ajhsdjajksdasdajksd ajhsdjajks dasdajksd ajhsdjajksd asdajksd ajhsdjajks dasdajksd dasdajksd ajhsdjajksd asdajksd ajhsdjajks dasdajksd
\end{enumerate}
\item ajksdkasjdadsasd
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}
![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YNQmg.png)
Best Answer
For jobs like this, use
enumitem
that provides flexible options. Here is an example.You can adjust the labels for second level by
If
label*
is used instead oflabel
, we will get1.a)
,1.b)
etc.