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I would like to manually insert an indentation on some lines inside an enumerate environment but not others. I am using the enumerate environment to number examples, but then inserting line breaks using \. I would like to indent some of the paragraphs in examples like the following (but not all of them), so am trying to insert a space manually.

begin{enumerate}[align=left,label={(arabic*)},resume]

item Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.\

Rhoncus urna neque viverra justo nec ultrices dui. Lobortis elementum nibh tellus molestie nunc non.\

Eget duis at tellus at urna condimentum mattis pellentesque id.

end{enumerate}

However, indent and hspace{parindent} are not working. What can I do to fix this?

EDIT:

The problem appears to go deeper than not being able to insert a parindent. I can't seem to insert any amount of hspace at the beginning of a line in the enumerate environment. Not even the following code produces the expected result:

begin{enumerate}[align=left,label={(arabic*)},resume]

item Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.\

hspace{2em}Rhoncus urna neque viverra justo nec ultrices dui. Lobortis elementum nibh tellus molestie nunc non.\

Eget duis at tellus at urna condimentum mattis pellentesque id.

end{enumerate}

You can define a new length newlength{enumerateparindent}, then you can store the value of parindent in it with setlength{enumerateparindent}{parindent} outside of a list, because inside a list parindent is set to zero. Therefore indent is not working.

Now you can reuse it with your new length:

documentclass{article}



usepackage{blindtext}

usepackage{enumitem} % <===============================================

setlist[enumerate]{parsep=0pt}

newlength{enumerateparindent} % <=====================================



begin{document}



setlength{enumerateparindent}{parindent} % <=========================

blindtext



begin{enumerate}

setlength{parindent}{enumerateparindent} % <=========================

item%

blindtext



blindtext

end{enumerate}



Version 2:

begin{enumerate}[align=left,label={(arabic*)},resume]

item Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.



hspace{enumerateparindent}Rhoncus urna neque viverra justo nec ultrices dui. Lobortis elementum nibh tellus molestie nunc non.



Eget duis at tellus at urna condimentum mattis pellentesque id.

end{enumerate}



end{document}

In version 1 I showed the possibility to indent all new paragraphs. In version 2 I showed you how to indent only a special one.

Please see that you should not use \ outside a table. Also in enumerate use a blank line instead \!

The result is:

Because you already use enumitem you can use a third version:

Version 3:

begin{enumerate}[listparindent=enumerateparindent] % <================

item%

blindtext



blindtext

end{enumerate}

Here listparindent is set to enumerateparindent. listparindent is taht value used for the indent with enumitem. Same result as my version 1.

The advantage with enumerateparindent is that you always use the same length parindent has ...

I think you can play around with enumitem. The first enumerate lets no indentation for paragraphs. Whereas the next two modify the indentations for paragraphs. Remember you can link up enumerate environments with [resume].

documentclass{article}

usepackage{lipsum}

usepackage{enumitem}

setlist[enumerate]{parsep=0pt}



begin{document}



     begin{enumerate}

        item

        lipsum[66]

        lipsum[66]

    end{enumerate}



    begin{enumerate}[resume,listparindent=1.5em]

        item

        lipsum[66]

        lipsum[66]

    end{enumerate}





    begin{enumerate}[resume,listparindent=1.5em, labelsep=2em, itemindent=1.5em]

        item

        lipsum[66]

        lipsum[66]

    end{enumerate}



end{document}