[Tex/LaTex] indent only first line in customized enumerate

#enumerateindentation

As I enumerate huge blocks of words, Latex automatically indents the entire paragraph. To save some space I want Latex to indent only the first line and leave the rest with full width.

Indent first line only in customized list is exactly the same, but author uses list instead of enumeration and \bullet instead of \arabic. I tried to follow its pattern and tried different options, changing {list} to {enumerate}, \bullet to \arabic, etc. but no success. Can somebody please help me? Thanks!

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Like this?

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\setlist[enumerate]{itemindent=\dimexpr\labelwidth+\labelsep\relax,leftmargin=0pt}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[4]
\begin{enumerate}
\item \lipsum[4]
\item \lipsum[4]
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

As Harish Kumar mentions in his comment, the wide key can also be used:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\setlist[enumerate]{wide=\parindent}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[4]
\begin{enumerate}
\item \lipsum[4]
\item \lipsum[4]
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Indentation and line wraps in TeXShop

I not sure what exactly is your required feature, but maybe the following will satisfy you. I make use of another program to do the work, namely Textwrangler, to properly align and insert hard line breaks.

Here is a macro that does the following:

collects all marked text,
passes it on to Textwrangler
where the text is properly aligned and broken
the result is pasted back in TexShop in place of the marked text.

I apply the macro using an assigned keyboard shortcut. I am no Applescript whizkid, so I guess the macro can be improved.

--Applescript
-- Script to transfer the current TeXShop document to TextWrangler
-- Ido Ben-Zvi
-- Based on Ramon Figueroa-Centeno's macros 

tell application "TeXShop"
    try
        activate
        set posPath to path of the front document
        --return posPath

        tell application "System Events" to keystroke "c" using {command down}

        tell application "TextWrangler"
            activate
            tell application "System Events"
                keystroke "a" using command down
                keystroke "v" using command down
                keystroke "a" using command down
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            hard wrap selection of text window 1 limit character width width 80 indentation none with paragraph fill and relative
            --copy selection of text window 1
            --set modified_text to selection of text window 1       
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            --close myTeXfile
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        -- back at TexShop      
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[Tex/LaTex] How to reduce the indentation of items in an enumeration

The memoir class, by default, adds a bit of horizontal space in front of the labels. In the code below -- which I believe achieves your formatting objectives -- this extra space is suppressed by specifying explicitly the desired forms of the labels ([1.], [a.]) as the argument of each \begin{enumerate} command. In addition, I've allocated a bit more horizontal widths to the left-hand column. The instruction \firmlists* reduces the amount of vertical spacing, and the command \frenchspacing suppresses the extra space after periods.

An additional suggestion: consider placing the tabular stuff in a table rather than in a figure environment: people tend to associate "figures" with graphical information, not tabular information.

\documentclass[a4paper]{memoir}
\frenchspacing

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\firmlists*

\begin{tabular}{|p{0.51\textwidth}p{0.45\textwidth}|}
\hline
\begin{enumerate}[1.]
  \item SDF
    \begin{enumerate}[a.]
      \item \label{templatelang-req:target-sort}Target sort
      \item \label{templatelang-req:cons-attr}Constructor attribute
      \item \label{templatelang-req:other-attrs}Other attributes
      \item \label{templatelang-req:sort-refs}References to other sorts
      \item \label{templatelang-req:literals-1}Literal text (excl. layout)
      \item \label{templatelang-req:option-op}Option operator \texttt{A?}
      \item \label{templatelang-req:repetition-op}Repetition operators 
            \texttt{A*} and \texttt{A+}
      \item \label{templatelang-req:list-op}List operators 
            \texttt{\{A S\}*} and \texttt{\{A S\}+}
    \end{enumerate}
  \end{enumerate} &
\begin{enumerate}
  \setcounter{enumi}{1}
  \item Pretty printer
    \begin{enumerate}[a.]
      \item \label{templatelang-req:literals-2}Literal text (incl. layout)
      \item \label{templatelang-req:wordwrap}Optional: word wrap
      \item \label{templatelang-req:alignment}Optional: alignment
      \item \label{templatelang-req:tabstops}Optional: tab stops
    \end{enumerate}
  \vspace{1.8ex}
  \item Completion templates
    \begin{enumerate}[a.]
      \item \label{templatelang-req:literals-3}Literal text (incl. layout)
      \item \label{templatelang-req:placeholder-text}Placeholder text
    \end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate} \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Required information to encode in our syntax templates}
\label{fig:templatelang:requirements}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

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