Alphabetic Enumerations in LaTeX
I wanted my LaTeX lists to be numbered with letters (a, b, c...) rather than numbers (1, 2, 3...) . There is documentation for this online, but I had a really hard time figuring out how to use it properly.
The key is to use a \renewcommand{\theenumi}{\alph{enumi}}
command inside the enumerate environment, not in the header of the
LaTeX document. Here is an example:
\begin{enumerate}
\renewcommand{\theenumi}{\alph{enumi}}
\item This is the a'th item.
\item And this is the b'th.
\item Aren't all examples supposed to have at least c items?
\end{enumerate}
enumi in this case refers to the first level of nesting. \alph
means lower case letters (\Alph would mean upper case, and there are
others.)