enumeration label out of margin

Question

I am wring this enumerated list as part of my document. I created labels as Step-I Step-II Step-III

However they went out of margin on left side which looks ugly. I have attached the rough picture of it. Is there any way that it stays in the margin and move to right instead of moving towards left. The code is

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}


\begin{document}
\lipsum
\begin{enumerate}[label = {[Step-\Roman*]}]
\item 
\item
\item 
\item
\end{enumerate}
\lipsum
\end{document}

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the help. I ran into another problem of margin. The text is not moving to more of right.

\begin{enumerate}[label = {[Step-\arabic*]},align=left]
\item {\color{bl} (Choose an elliptic curve)} Randomly choose an elliptic curve $E$ over $\Z_n$
      and point $P(x,y) \in E_{a,b}(\Z_n).$ Then again choose randomly $a,x,y\in \Z_n$ and
      calculate $b = y^2-x^3-ax.$ Compute $\gcd(4a^3+27b^2,n).$ If $\gcd(4a^3+27b^2,n)\neq 1,$
      then $E$ is not an elliptic curve. Choose another pair $(E,P)$ and repeat. \\
      If $\gcd(4a^3+27b^2,n)=1$ move to next step.
\item {\color{bl} (Compute $[m]P)$} Select a positive integer $m$ and compute the point $[m]P)
      \in E_{a,b}(\Z_n).$  
\item 
\item
\end{enumerate}

Related/duplicate: How to make enumerate items align at left margin? — Werner, Mar 18 '16 at 23:10

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 18 '16 at 23:15

11

You can use align= left:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}    

\begin{document}
\lipsum
\begin{enumerate}[label = {[Step-\Roman*]},align=left]
\item
\item
\item
\item
\end{enumerate}
\lipsum

\end{document}

edited Mar 18 '16 at 23:15

AboAmmar

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answered Mar 18 '16 at 23:08

Ulrike Fischer

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...an option with widest also exist. See How to make enumerate items align at left margin? – Werner Mar 18 '16 at 23:10
When using left option, it is not correctly aligned to left always. AboAmmar's solution worked for me. – Cyriac Antony Aug 01 '19 at 10:12

AboAmmar · Answer 2 · 2016-03-18T23:39:39.953

9

Like this?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum,calc}
\usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}
\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]
\begin{enumerate}[label={[Step-\Roman*]},leftmargin=\widthof{[Step-III]}+\labelsep]
\item first item
\item second item
\item third item
\item fourth item
\end{enumerate}
\lipsum[2]

\end{document}

edited Mar 18 '16 at 23:39

answered Mar 18 '16 at 23:36

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enumeration label out of margin

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