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Title of the Script: Customizing Numbered List.

Author: Ambika Vanchinathan

Keywords: LaTeX, enumitem package, customized lists, lists in roman numerals, lists with alphabets, video tutorial


Visual Cue Narration
Slide 1

Title Slide

Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Customizing Numbered List.
Slide 2

Learning Objectives

In this tutorial, we will learn to,
  • Understand the purpose and applications of the enumitem package.
  • Customize the numbering styles.
Slide 3

System Requirements

To record this tutorial, I am using:
  • Ubuntu Linux OS version 22.04
  • Texworks version 0.6.6
Slide 4

Pre-requisites

To follow this tutorial,

Learners should have basic knowledge of LaTeX.

Slide 5

Code Files

The following Code File is required to practice this tutorial:

1. enumitem-eg1.tex

This file is provided in the Code Files link of this tutorial page.

The following Code File is required to practice this tutorial.

This file is provided in the Code Files link of this tutorial page.

Let us get started.
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\usepackage{enumitem}

This command imports the enumitem package.

The enumitem package helps to customize and control the layout of lists.

Click the green Typeset button and show the output Click the green Typeset button to run the code.

Here is the output.

Notice that the list items are displayed using numbers.

Comment line number 8 and

Uncomment line number 9.

Let’s comment line number 8 and

Uncomment line number 9.

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line 9

\begin{enumerate}[label=\Roman*]

This command customizes the numbering style to uppercase Roman numerals.
Click the green Typeset button and show the output Let us run the code to see the output.
Comment line 9

Uncomment line 10

Comment line number 9 and

Uncomment line number 10.

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line 10

\begin{enumerate}[label=\roman*]

This command customizes the numbering style to lowercase Roman numerals.
Click the green Typeset button and show the output Let us run the code to see the output.
Comment line 10

Uncomment line 11

Comment line number 10

Uncomment line number 11.

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line 11

\begin{enumerate}[label=\Alph*]

This command customizes the numbering style to uppercase alphabets.
Click the green Typeset button and show the output. Run the code to see the output.
Comment line 11

Uncomment line 12

Comment line number 11 and

Uncomment line number 12.

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line 12

\begin{enumerate}[label=(\alph*)]

This command customizes the numbering style to lowercase alphabets in parenthesis.
Click the green Typeset button and show the output Let’s run the code.

Here is the output.

Comment line 12

Uncomment line 13

Comment line number 12 and

Uncomment line number 13.

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line 13

\begin{enumerate}[label=\arabic*(a):]

This command customizes the list labels to display numbers followed by a in parenthesis.
Click the green Typeset button and show the output Let’s run the code to see the output.
Slide 6

Summary

In this tutorial, we have learnt to,

  • Understand the purpose and applications of the enumitem package.
  • Customize the numbering style.
With this we come to the end of this tutorial.

Let us summarise.

Slide 7

Assignment

As an assignment

Add a custom symbol ★ before each item in a list with numbers.

Slide 8

Thank you

Thank you for joining.

Contributors and Content Editors

Ketkinaina, Madhurig