# Hypertext Help with LaTeX
Lists

LaTeX provides several List-Making Environments These may be nested up to four deep.

The items in the list are given by `\item` commands. A blank line before an `\item` command has no effect.

## List-Making Enviroments

### Description

  Typically used for giving short definitions or descriptions; the `label` argument of the `\item` command generally giving the term being described (although it can be left blank, it will look strange). The text of the `\item` command is indented.

### Enumerate

  Typically used for numbered lists. Counters for these lists are provided by `enumi, emumii, enumiii, enumiv`, respectively, for the four levels of nesting.

### Itemize

  Typically used for unnumbered lists. The default `label` argument of the `\item` command produces "tick-marks" which vary by level of nesting, generally "bullets" for the first level.

### List

  Produces a list of labeled items and has required arguments that allow a great deal of flexibility in layout. It is generally used to define new environments with the `\newenvironment` command, or to set up one-of-a-kind lists.

### Trivlist

  Like the List Environment, using the currently defined values of list-making parameters; normally used to define an environment with a single item, with an `\item` command as part of the environment definition.

See also `\item`
See also Counters, Environments
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