Enumerate with custom strings

Question

I'm trying to get a list of custom labels. Here is what I've tried:

\begin{enumerate}[Exercise (1)]

\item first

\item second

\end{enumerate}

This results in each item being labeled as: Exerc#se (#)

Where # is the number of the item in the list. How can I make the "i" in exercise not be pattern matched?

Using a \ doesn't work, it causes syntax error.

Are you using the enumerate package or enumitem with the shortlabels option. Please provide a compilable document! — , Jan 23 '17 at 19:21
please always use a complete document, so people don't have to guess. — David Carlisle, Jan 23 '17 at 19:23
@AlexRosenfeld: Too late ... David Carlisle has answered already ... he seems to have more insight into enumerate than I have -- very strange ;-) — , Jan 23 '17 at 19:25
@ChristianHupfer sorry:-) excellent package, don't you agree? — David Carlisle, Jan 23 '17 at 19:25
for the case you have, my old enumerate package is fine, but in general enumitem as in @ChristianHupfer's answer is rather more flexible. — David Carlisle, Jan 23 '17 at 19:30
@DavidCarlisle: But enumerate works with beamer (as far as I know), but enumitem works very poorly with beamer — , Jan 23 '17 at 19:31
Related: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/47335/custom-enumeration — Schweinebacke, Oct 16 '17 at 08:20

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 23 '17 at 19:28

7

For completeness, here's a possible way to solve this with enumitem (a little bit more complex)

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{enumitem}


\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}[font={\bfseries},label={Exercise (\arabic*)}]

\item first

\item second

\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

answered Jan 23 '17 at 19:28

The screenshot is from a version without font={\bfseries} – Jan 23 '17 at 19:33

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '17 at 19:24

5

As documented in the package documentation, letters inside {} are never taken as counter templates so

 [{Exercise }(1)]

should hide Exercise

answered Jan 23 '17 at 19:24

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