Arabic enumerating inside an alpha enumerating

Question

I'm wondering how to show the original enumerating instead of alpha inside the list. enumitem package is included.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
    \begin{enumerate}[label=(\alph*)]
      \item The first item
      \begin{enumerate}[label*=\arabic*.]
        \item Nested item 1
        \item Nested item 2
      \end{enumerate}
      \item The second item
      \item The third etc \ldots
    \end{enumerate}
\end{document}

What the code gives:

What I want to achieve:

Am I missing something? Thanks in advance.

score 14 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 23 '21 at 07:58

14

Just omit the * after label in the inner enumerate. The star appends the labelling of the outer ('parent') list to the inner list.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
    \begin{enumerate}[label={(\alph*)}]
        \item The first item
            \begin{enumerate}[label={\arabic*.}]
                \item Nested item 1
                \item Nested item 2
            \end{enumerate}
        \item The second item
        \item The third etc \ldots
    \end{enumerate}
\end{document}

edited Jul 23 '21 at 07:58

Green-Avocado

103
5

answered Dec 08 '15 at 20:09

what is * doing after \alph and \arabic? – Fibo Kowalsky Nov 14 '18 at 21:54
3

@FiboKowalsky: Reading the manual helps: It is an internal format for enumerate labels, in order to prevent the code using \alph and \arabic directly. – Nov 15 '18 at 16:35

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 08 '15 at 20:12

6

Remove the * from the label= in the nested list:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
    \begin{enumerate}[label=(\alph*)]
      \item The first item
      \begin{enumerate}[label=\arabic*.]
        \item Nested item 1
        \item Nested item 2
      \end{enumerate}
      \item The second item
      \item The third etc \ldots
    \end{enumerate}
\end{document}

Gives you the list you want:

answered Dec 08 '15 at 20:12

Florian Bach

366

Yes, it seems as if you were a little bit faster than me with writing your answer. When submitting mine, I didn't see there is another one. I'm new to stackexchange - how do you usually handle those "duplicate replys"? Shall I remove mine? Or just leave it there? – Florian Bach Dec 08 '15 at 20:16
3

Apparently you're German: Wo kein Richter da kein Henker ;-) Willkommen bei TeX.SX -- der Guten Seite der Typographie ;-) – Dec 08 '15 at 20:18
label={}, i.e. curly brackets may be required – A.Ametov May 24 '22 at 00:29

Arabic enumerating inside an alpha enumerating

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