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What I want to is to get is the sentence Next follows Items 3 to 6, to be indented not with the enumerated list itself but with the normal indentation. Appreciate any suggestions.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{mwe}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{enumerate}

\begin{document}

This is an enumerated list.

\begin{enumerate}
\item Item 1
\item Item 2

Next follows Items 3 to 6

\item Item 3
\item Item 4
\item Item 5
\item Item 6

\end{enumerate}

\end{document}
Eureka
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    You could end the enumerate before the "intertext" and resume it later (with enumitem), but that could give you too much space around the "intertext". – moewe Jul 06 '18 at 14:48
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    `\documentclass{article} \usepackage{enumitem}

    \begin{document} \begin{enumerate} \item Item 1 \item Item 2 \end{enumerate} Next follows Items 3 to 6 \begin{enumerate}[resume] \item Item 3 \item Item 4 \item Item 5 \item Item 6 \end{enumerate} \end{document}`

     – moewe Jul 06 '18 at 14:49
  • As moewe write, that text is not a part of a list, thus semantically the only right thing to do is to suspend the list and restart it afterwards. enumitem is a great package, but it also has its quirks, see the manual for the difference between resume and resume* – daleif Jul 06 '18 at 14:54
  • You don't have to use enumitem to resume your lists, there are other ways: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1669/35864 – moewe Jul 06 '18 at 14:58
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    Possible duplicate https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/135726/35864? Should probably have searched before I wrote the answer :-(... – moewe Jul 06 '18 at 15:05
  • \hspace*{-\leftmargin}Next follows Items 3 to 6 also works, although you will need a \parbox for more than one line. – John Kormylo Jul 07 '18 at 13:27

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I would just \end the enumerate before the "intertext" and then resume it again afterwards. With enumitem you can just use

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
\item Item 1
\item Item 2
\end{enumerate}%
Next follows Items 3 to 6
\begin{enumerate}[resume*]
\item Item 3
\item Item 4
\item Item 5
\item Item 6
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

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Thanks to daleif's comment now with resume* instead of resume to also resume the style of the previous enumerate.

The spacing is not too bad here I think, so you might not even have to change that.

Your MWE loads the enumerate package, so you will probably want to switch from enumerate's syntax to enumitem.

\begin{enumerate}[(a)]
\item Item 1
\item Item 2
\end{enumerate}

becomes

\begin{enumerate}[label=(\alph*)]
\item Item 1
\item Item 2
\end{enumerate}

Or you can load enumitem with the shortlabels option, which is intended to provide some compatibility with how the enumerate package works.

Depending on your use cases you may want to look into making these definitions global with \setlist or defining a new list environment with \newlist. For more on that see the enumitem documentation.

If you prefer not to use enumitem, you can have a look at Resuming a list for alternative ways to resume your enumerate.

moewe
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  • This is clashing with what I have originally, \usepackage{enumerate} for lists of the type \begin{enumerate}[(a)]..... Is there a way to resolve this ? – Eureka Jul 06 '18 at 15:05
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    @Fib1123 You can either switch completely from the enumerate package to enumitem and say \begin{enumerate}[label=(\alph*)] for the first enumerate. Or you can use Carl Mummert's answer to resume the enumerate without enumitem. – moewe Jul 06 '18 at 15:08
  • @Fib1123 just load enumitem with the shortlabels option, moewe do you mind adding that option to the example. Shortlabels makes it fully compatible with the syntax of the enumerate package – daleif Jul 06 '18 at 15:49
  • @daleif I have added a short statement about that at the end. Would that be enough? I think if you use enumitem you might as well buy into the slightly more verbose syntax. – moewe Jul 06 '18 at 16:01
  • Actually I tend to make it much less verbose by predefing se real setups such that the label key is never directly used in the manuscript. Maybe I'll add an example when I'm at a pc again – daleif Jul 06 '18 at 16:09
  • @daleif For recurring uses that or a global setting is certainly the best option. – moewe Jul 06 '18 at 16:13
  • One of the nice things about enumitem is setlist if you combine it with etoolbox, you can control list defaults on a per env basis, very useful for teaching materials, where some envs may have different setups than others. – daleif Jul 06 '18 at 17:07