customizing enumeration list label

[brownh]

I create an enumeration list with:

\renewcommand\theenumi {\alph{enumi})}
\begin{enumerate}
\item
...

And get a). XXX

Do do I remove the period so that I get

a) XXX

Couldn't find it in the documentation.

Haines Brown

[Joost Kremers]

brownh wrote:
> I create an enumeration list with:
>
> \renewcommand\theenumi {\alph{enumi})}
> \begin{enumerate}
> \item
> ...
>
> And get a). XXX
>
> Do do I remove the period so that I get
>
> a) XXX

i *think* the command to be redefined is \labelenumi, not \theenumi:

\renewcommand{\labelenumi}{\alph{enumi})}

otherwise:

\usepackage{enumitem}

and then check out the manual how to do it exactly.

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[Ulrich D i e z]

Haines Brown wrote:

> I create an enumeration list with:
>
> \renewcommand\theenumi {\alph{enumi})}
> \begin{enumerate}
> \item
> ...
>
> And get a). XXX
>
> Do do I remove the period so that I get
>
> a) XXX

The item-labels for enumeration-lists of first nesting-level
are formed by means of the macro \labelenumi which e.g.
with book-class is defined as

\def\labelenumi{\theenumi .}

There is a period at the end of \labelenumi's replacement-text.

Therefore I guess that you need to redefine both \theenumi and
\labelenumi - e.g.,

\renewcommand*\labelenumi{\theenumi}
\renewcommand*\theenumi {\alph{enumi})}
\begin{enumerate}
\item

Ulrich

[Dan]

On Sep 13, 7:27 am, Ulrich D i e z <eu_angel...@web.de> wrote:

> Haines Brown wrote:
>
> Therefore I guess that you need to redefine both \theenumi and
> \labelenumi - e.g.,
>
>   \renewcommand*\labelenumi{\theenumi}
>   \renewcommand*\theenumi {\alph{enumi})}
>   \begin{enumerate}
>   \item

You also have to decide if you want the parenthesis to appear in
\ref's.
If not:
\renewcommand \theenumi{\alph{enumi}}
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\theenumi)}

\label picks up \theenumi.

Dan