Text Formatting ⇒ enumeration goes out the text area

[Zoran S]

In class book, when I use the environment enumerate (say with roman numbers) it appears that these numbers step into the left margin. How to move them to the right?

[Johannes_B]

Hi,

i am not completely sure what you mean. Can you show us in form of a small compilable example?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I can imagine what you mean, it seems like a wrong or undesired setting of the enumerate label. This could be done by a class, a package or a specific setting in your preamble. We could fix that easily, we just need to know your code. So I suggest, follow Johannes' advice and post a shortened (still compilable) sample code which produces that effect. Just a reduced copy of your code. Click on Johannes' link above to learn why and how, perhaps. Once we got code, we can fix it for sure.

Stefan

PS: welcome to the forum! I noticed it is your second post.

[Zoran S]

In the preamble I have this:

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\documentclass{cambridge7A}

\def\makeRRlabeldot#1{\hss\llap{#1}}
\renewcommand\theenumi{{\rm (\roman{enumi})}}
\renewcommand\theenumii{{\rm (\alph{enumii})}}
\renewcommand\theenumiii{{\rm (\arabic{enumiii})}}
\renewcommand\theenumiv{{\rm (\Alph{enumiv})}}

Later I have something like this:

\begin{enumerate}[(ii)]
    \item $\lambda_1(G(k,l))>\lambda_1(G(k+1, l-1))$,
    \item $\lambda_n(G(k,l))\leq\lambda_n(G(k+1, l-1))$,
    \item $\mu_1(G(k,l))\geq\mu_1(G(k+1,l-1))$,
    \item $\mu_{n-1}(G(k,l))\geq \mu_{n-1}(G(k+1,l-1))$,
    \item $\kappa_1(G(k,l))> \kappa_1(G(k+1,l-1))$,
    \item $\kappa_n(G(k,l))\geq \kappa_1(G(k+1,l-1))$.
\end{enumerate}

And this produces:

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You can see that the numbers, specially (iii), are not aligned with the text.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Zoran,

with a compilable example we would have been faster with providing a solution. So I needed to find some time to build an example on my own, using your code snippets.

Anyway, here's a solution with enumitem. Perhaps your preamble or your class already loads it. I used the article standard class.

Here, I put a label to the line with the widest label. It will be taken for calculating the width. Just ensure to compile twice, because it needs to find the reference for the label generated in the first run. I inserted a wide dash into the label just to see how it behaves width wider one.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}
\usepackage{calc}
\begin{document}
\section{Test}
Text
\begin{enumerate}[label=(\roman*---),labelindent=0pt,
    labelwidth=\widthof{\ref{widest}},itemindent=1em,leftmargin=!]
  \item $\lambda_1(G(k,l))>\lambda_1(G(k+1, l-1))$,
  \item $\lambda_n(G(k,l))\leq\lambda_n(G(k+1, l-1))$,
  \item $\mu_1(G(k,l))\geq\mu_1(G(k+1,l-1))$,\label{widest}
  \item $\mu_{n-1}(G(k,l))\geq \mu_{n-1}(G(k+1,l-1))$,
  \item $\kappa_1(G(k,l))> \kappa_1(G(k+1,l-1))$,
  \item $\kappa_n(G(k,l))\geq \kappa_1(G(k+1,l-1))$.
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

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You can see, the widest label is aligned to the left margin.

Stefan

[Zoran S]

Thanks. It seems that

\begin{enumerate}[labelindent=2pt]
\item sss
\item ddd

\end{enumerate}

also resolves the problem.