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I am trying to get enumerations with the list labels surrounded by text circles for which I am using the following code:

\usepackage{tikz}
\newcommand*\mycirc[1]{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[baseline=(C.base)]
\node[draw,circle,inner sep=1pt](C) {#1};
\end{tikzpicture}}

I am trying to get the following code to work:

    \begin{compactenum}[{\mycirc{}A{}}]
    \item
    \end{compactenum}

but no luck yet. Note that compactenum comes from the paralist package. Any suggestions are very welcome.

tchakravarty
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I would recommend you use the enumitem package for your compact list. Here's an example:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\newcommand*\mycirc[1]{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[baseline=(C.base)]
\node[draw,circle,inner sep=1pt,minimum size=3ex](C) {#1};
\end{tikzpicture}}

\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}[itemsep=0pt,label=\protect\mycirc{\Alph*}]
  \item Foo
  \item Bar
  \item
  \item
  \item
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

output of code

Alan Munn
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If you still want to use paralist, a bit of trickery is needed as unfortunately paralist doesn't seem to offer a means for constructing custom labels:

\def\mycirc\csname#1\endcsname{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[baseline=(C.base)]
\node[draw,circle,inner sep=1pt](C) {\csname#1\endcsname};
\end{tikzpicture}}

and then

\begin{compactenum}[\mycirc A]
Stephan Lehmke
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  • Ah, I like both your solution and Alan's. But I think I am going to go with Alan's because it seems simpler to me! :) Thanks though. – tchakravarty Mar 24 '12 at 21:16