[Tex/LaTex] Numbering and text alignment with enumerate

#enumeratespacing

There are a multitude of options to specify the alignment and spacing with the enumerate package however I am unable to find the combination which yields the formatting I want.

The \lipsum package is used to illustrate the formatting.

Using the options below, each item in enumerate (1st and 2nd levels) has the same indentation (left margin) for every line in each 1st level of enumerate. This is what I want. However I would also like the section and 1st level enumerate numbers to be left aligned.

I have included the 2nd level of enumerate which is appearing as desired with the (a) at the same alignment as the text in the 1st level.

\setenumerate[1]{label=\thesection.\arabic*,labelwidth=1.5cm,labelindent=10pt,leftmargin=1.2cm}

In order to make the section numbering and first level enumerate numbering aligned on the left, I changed to using the following options;

\setenumerate[1]{label=\thesection.\arabic*,labelsep*=12pt, align=left, leftmargin=*}

However now the indentation of the paragraph is not constant.

Below I have taken a screen shot and moved text around in paint to illustrate what I'm trying to achieve. I am less/not particularly concerned about the section heading text and paragraph text having the same alignment as each other.

Here is MWE.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{enumitem}

% Section numbers and enumerate numbers are not left aligned, however the indentation of text is constant (how I want it)
% \setenumerate[1]{label=\thesection.\arabic*,labelwidth=1.5cm,labelindent=10pt,leftmargin=1.2cm}

% Section numbers and enumerate numbers are left aligned, however the indentation of the text is not constant
\setenumerate[1]{label=\thesection.\arabic*,labelsep*=12pt, align=left, leftmargin=*}

\setenumerate[2]{label=(\alph*), ref=\theenumi{} (\alph*), align=left}

\begin{document}
\section{Test}
\begin{enumerate}
    \item \lipsum[2]
\end{enumerate}

\setcounter{section}{22}
\section{Double digits}
\begin{enumerate}
    \item \lipsum[2]
    \setcounter{enumi}{21}
    \item \lipsum[2]
    \begin{enumerate}
        \item \lipsum[2] % The (a) should be aligned with the text in the item above
    \end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

Best Answer

Use the widestkey for that:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{enumitem}

% Section numbers and enumerate numbers are not left aligned, however the indentation of text is constant (how I want it)
% \setenumerate[1]{label=\thesection.\arabic*,labelwidth=1.5cm,labelindent=10pt,leftmargin=1.2cm}

% Section numbers and enumerate numbers are left aligned, however the indentation of the text is not constant
\setenumerate[1]{label=\thesection.\arabic*,labelsep*=12pt, widest=00.00, align=left, leftmargin=*}

\setenumerate[2]{label=(\alph*), ref=\theenumi{} (\alph*), align=left}

\begin{document}
\section{Test}
\begin{enumerate}
    \item \lipsum[2]
\end{enumerate}

\setcounter{section}{22}
\section{Double digits}
\begin{enumerate}
    \item \lipsum[2]
    \setcounter{enumi}{21}
    \item \lipsum[2]
    \begin{enumerate}
        \item \lipsum[2] % The (a) should be aligned with the text in the item above
    \end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

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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 
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    \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}

[Tex/LaTex] Custom enumerate margin with enumitem

Here is a solution to your problem, I think. This is quite an awful looking format. The tricky part is getting the indent of the first item of an embedded second level list. This bit of hackery (appropriately called \trickindent) is due to egreg.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\setlist[enumerate]{nosep,itemindent=3.5em}
\newcommand{\trickindent}{%
  \let\normalitem\item
  \def\item{%
    \itemindent=0pt
    \normalitem
    \itemindent=3.5em
    \let\item\normalitem}%
}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
\item\kant*[1]
\begin{enumerate}
\item\kant*[4]
\end{enumerate}
\item\begin{enumerate}[before=\trickindent]
  \item\kant*[2]
  \item\kant*[3]
\end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

output of code

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