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From: graham@cs.man.ac.uk (Graham Gough)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Changing LaTex item numbers in enumerate.
Message-ID: <GRAHAM.91Jan29104425@r8e.cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: 29 Jan 91 10:44:25 GMT
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In-reply-to: jochterski@eagle.wesleyan.edu's message of 28 Jan 91 20:09:16 GMT

>  Here's an easy one (but I can't get it...)
>  
>  I want the enumerate in LaTeX to make item numbers like:
>  
>  a.
>  b.
>  c.
>  

I use the following little style file to create the alphaenum environment

%
% alphaenum.sty
%
% List environment that uses lowercase alpha counter
%
\newcounter{alphaenum@count}
\newenvironment{alphaenum}%
{\begin{list}%
{\alph{alphaenum@count})}%
{\usecounter{alphaenum@count}\def\p@alphaenum@count{\expandafter\@alph}}}%
{\end{list}}

Graham

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