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Date:         Mon, 7 Feb 1994 12:37:18 LCL
From: Mike Piff <M.Piff@SHEFFIELD.AC.UK>
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Subject:      Re: List environment
Status: R

%>Date:          Thu, 3 Feb 1994 13:06:56 EST
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%>From:          Paul Krause x7816 <krausep@SRA.COM>
%>Subject:       List environment
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%>
%>>  How do others see this?
%>>
%>>  Mike Piff
%>
%>I think that you are misusing the th environment.  In LaTeX 2.09 I
%>find that actually having a theorem before the nested list solves the

ie, some text. Yes, I know it looks OK then.

%>problem.  Perhaps something could be done to newtheorem to alert naive
%>users to this kind of abuse.
%>

Why is this misuse? I think you are mis-interpreting the theorem environment
as being *only* for theorems. As is clear from p58 of Lamport, the intention
was much more general, eg

Exercise 2.3 (i) .......
(ii) ......

Mike

%>\documentstyle[12pt]{article} \newtheorem{th}{Theorem}
%>\begin{document}
%>\begin{enumerate}
%>   \item
%>   \begin{enumerate}
%>      \item  This looks
%>      \item  good
%>   \end{enumerate}
%>\end{enumerate}
%>\begin{th} foo
%>   \begin{enumerate}
%>      \item $\leftarrow$This space is too big
%>      \item
%>   \end{enumerate}
%>\end{th}
%>\begin{th} bar
%>   \begin{description}
%>      \item [One]  Good bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar
%>        bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar
%>      \item [Two]  Probably this would look better indented bar bar
%>        bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar
%>   \end{description}
%>\end{th}
%>\end{document}
%>
%>Paul F. Krause          Systems Research and Applications Corporation
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