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I have looked around the site for a while and haven't found a specific answer about this particular problem:

I am typing up a paper and was asked to separate different sections with headings. I would like to use itemize to do so, but have had trouble with formatting. I want the text to align with the rest of the document, so I found I should use the enumitem package so that I can adjust leftmargin. Here is an example of what I have now:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum, enumitem}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]

\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=0cm]
\item[I.] First Section

\lipsum[1]

\lipsum[2]

\item[II.] Second Section

\quad \quad \lipsum[3]

\end{itemize}

\end{document}

This is the exact format I want except I noticed that the paragraphs are no longer indented. I tried using \indent, but to no avail. For now, I am using \quad \quad, which is neither the same as an indent nor good markup, I'm sure.

Do any of you know a better way to approach this?

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I'm providing an alternative view on your input that is more in line with the semantics of a document with sectional division:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum,sectsty,indentfirst}% http://ctan.org/pkg/{sectsty,indentfirst}

\sectionfont{\normalsize\normalfont}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@seccntformat}[1]{\leavevmode\llap{\csname the#1\endcsname.\quad}}
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\Roman{section}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]

\section{First Section}

\lipsum[1-2]

\section{Second Section}

\lipsum[3]

\end{document}

Here are some references to the elements changed inside the MWE preamble:

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  • Thank you very much Werner! I don't know why I was trying to make it harder on myself than it had to be. I appreciate how complete your answer was - I will be following those links to learn more about that code you added to the preamble. It seems I have just started to scratch the surface! – Nico Oct 16 '13 at 04:17