10 Lists

There are three basic types of list in LaTeX, each with its own environment:

Ordered Lists

These lists are created using the enumerate environment. Inside this ordered list environment each listed item is specified with \item. Each item in an ordered list is numbered, e.g. try:

\begin{enumerate}
\item Find plans.
\item Save world.
\item Get out of my house!
\end{enumerate}

Unordered Lists

These lists are created using the itemize environment, but aside from using the same symbol for each item it is pretty much the same as the enumerate environment.

Description Lists

These lists are created using the description environment. You use the \item command as before to specify each item, but now it can take an optional argument which says what it is you're describing, e.g.

\begin{description}
\item[Microphone] A millionth of a telephone
\item[Megaphone] 10$^{12}$ microphones
\end{description}

Exercise 9

Use an unordered list to list your research interests.

Summary

• LaTeX has three kinds of list environment:
  1. enumerate (numbered list)
  2. itemize (unnumbered list)
  3. description (unnumbered definition)