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Lists

provides three environments for creating lists: itemize, enumerate and description, for example:

The proceeding list was produced by the following input:

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      \begin{itemize}
      \item bullets are produced by the \verb+itemize+ environment
      \item and are useful when you wish to present a list of items
      \item which has no order. 
      \end{itemize}
1.3Numbered items are produced by the enumerate environment
  1. Tweedledum does not exist.
  2. Tweedledee does not exist.
  3. At least one of these sentences is false.
The proceeding list was produced by the following input:

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      \begin{enumerate}
      \item Tweedledum does not exist.
      \item Tweedledee does not exist.
      \item At least one of these sentences is false.
      \end{enumerate}
1.3while a list of labelled items is generated by the description environment
grumble
to complain in a bad-tempered way.
grumpy
bad-tempered.
grunt
to make the gruff snorting sound characteristic of a pig.

The proceeding list was produced by the following input:

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      begin{description} 
      \item[grumble]  to complain in a bad-tempered way.
      \item[grumpy]  bad-tempered.
      \item[grunt]  to make the gruff snorting sound characteristic of a
      pig.
      \end{description}
1.3List-making environments may be nested (up to four levels of any type - which is too many). When nesting itemize environments, different symbols are used to begin each item, and when nesting enumerate environments, different forms of counter are used.


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