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What commands do I put in my preamble to set enumeration labels once and for all for a document. I'm not finding it easy to get this information from Bezos's instructions in enumitem.pdf.

I want my lists to follow canonical outline ordering: capital Roman for top level; capital alphabet for next level; arabic for next level; lowercase alphabet for next level.

Ruby
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    You asked two similar questions, I answered the specific needs for Roman, A,arabic,a in the other question and showed the possible use of options here –  Sep 23 '15 at 18:41

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Global enumerate options (for example) can be specified with \setlist[enumerate,1]{label=....,other options} (here for the 1st level)

However, instead of misusing the standard way of enumerate, a cloned version with \newlist{mylist}{enumerate}{4} should be used rather. 

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{enumitem}

\setlist[enumerate,1]{label={(\Alph*)}}

\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}
\item First item
\item Second item
\end{enumerate}

Start again:

\begin{enumerate}
\item Another first item
\item Another second item
\end{enumerate}


\end{document}

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  • What does the asterisk in "\Alph*" mean. I did look this up in enumitem.pdf, but I couldn't quite understand the answer. – Ruby Sep 23 '15 at 19:40
  • All enumitem label possibilities such as \Alph*, \arabic* use the star to indicate, that the command \Alph{enum...} etc. is to be used, i.e. the counter formatting macro for the current level of enumeration. enum... can be enumi, enumii, enumiii or enumiv, if a standard enumeration list is used. Beware of using label*={(\Alph*)} however. In this case, the higher level label is prepended to the current output –  Sep 23 '15 at 19:48