Problem with changing enumeration

Question

I want to change the standard enumeration (arabic numbers) in enumeration environment with the greek lowercase alphabet, using enumitem package.

I also use XeLateX engine to compile my document. The problem is that, when I use

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec,xgreek,enumitem}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{GFS Artemisia}

\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage[variant=modern]{greek}

\begin{document}    
\begin{enumerate}[label=\let\textdexiakeraia\relax(\alph*)]
      \item bla bla 
      \item bla bla
    \end{enumerate}
\end{document}

I get the following error (from my log file):

! Undefined control sequence.
\labelenumi ->\let \textdexiakeraia 
                                    \relax (\alph *)
l.120 ...label=\let\textdexiakeraia\relax(\alph*)]

The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

LaTeX Info: Redefining \anw@print on input line 121.
LaTeX Font Info:    Font shape `EU1/GFSArtemisia(0)/m/sl' in size <10.95> not a
vailable
(Font)              Font shape `EU1/GFSArtemisia(0)/m/it' tried instead on inpu
t line 122.

However, there is no errors when I simply use label=(\alph*) option.

Do you want to remove \textdexiakeraia only in enumerate labels or from all counter representations using \alph? — egreg, Feb 10 '16 at 09:46
Please, add a full example: the question linked by Alenanno refers to usage of babel, you perhaps are using Polyglossia. — egreg, Feb 10 '16 at 09:50
@egreg I want to remove \textdexiakeraia only in that enumerate environment — Yorgos, Feb 10 '16 at 09:51
@Alenanno From that question I got textdexiakeraia option. However, It doesn't work in my case. — Yorgos, Feb 10 '16 at 09:52
@Yorgos It'd be way easier and faster if you posted a MWE as egreg asks (including the packages you're using that are related to this question). — Alenanno, Feb 10 '16 at 09:53
You have not loaded the enumitem-package (at least not in you MWE). — Sveinung, Feb 10 '16 at 10:28
@Sveinung sorry, my mistake... I forgot to loaded in that MWE — Yorgos, Feb 10 '16 at 10:29
The error message indicates that the textdexiakeraia-command is not defined. Perhaps it is something wrong with the font definition? Not defined in fontspec? The answer Alananno is referring to in second comment, is using pdflatex, not xelatex. — Sveinung, Feb 10 '16 at 10:31
@Sveinung I tried with other fonts (e.g. Liberation Serif, Linux Libertine O) and the error remains... — Yorgos, Feb 10 '16 at 10:34
Indicating that textdexiakeraiais not defined when you are using xelatex, fontspec and polyglossia. — Sveinung, Feb 10 '16 at 10:38

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 10 '16 at 11:05

The xgreek package defines Greek numerals in a quite contorted way, that makes it difficult to change the representation.

Here's code that should work better and allowing locally to change the representation by omitting the numeral sign.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec,xgreek,enumitem}
\setmainfont{GFS Artemisia}

\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage[variant=modern]{greek}

\makeatletter
\renewrobustcmd{\anw@true}{\let\ifanw@\iftrue}
\renewrobustcmd{\anw@false}{\let\ifanw@\iffalse}\anw@false
\newrobustcmd{\noanw@true}{\let\ifnoanw@\iftrue}
\newrobustcmd{\noanw@false}{\let\ifnoanw@\iffalse}\noanw@false
\renewrobustcmd{\anw@print}{\ifanw@\ifnoanw@\else\numer@lsign\fi\fi}
\newrobustcmd{\noanw}{\noanw@true}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}[label=(\noanw\alph*)]
\item bla bla bla
\item bla bla
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

Problem with changing enumeration

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