Specifying a no-indent for a list, with LaTeX

Question

I have the following:

This is just normal text...

\begin{enumerate}
\item First Item ?\\\\
This is the text of the first item
\item Second Item ?\\\\
This is the text of the second item
\end{enumerate}

Which renders the following:

This is just normal text...

1. First Item ?

   This is the text of the first item

2. Second Item ? 

   This is the text of the second item

I want to specify that the text of the items has no indentation. Basically, I want it to be rendered like such:

This is just normal text...

1. First Item ?

This is the text of the first item

2. Second Item ? 

This is the text of the second item

How can I specify this form of no indentation?

Answer 1

Try customizing the list environment by providing appropriate values for \leftmargin, and \itemindent.

Something like the following (untested, values may actually differ since I don’t know what reference point is used):

\newenvironment{noindlist}
 {\begin{list}{\labelitemi}{\leftmargin=0em \itemindent=0em}}
 {\end{list}}

Answer 2

Konrad Rudolph's suggestion is on right track, but needs a couple tweaks. Here's tested version that should get what OP wants, requires adding a counter and zeroing out labelsep and labelwidth in addtion to what Konrad was doing:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\newcounter{mycounter}  
\newenvironment{noindlist}
 {\begin{list}{\arabic{mycounter}.~~}{\usecounter{mycounter} \labelsep=0em \labelwidth=0em \leftmargin=0em \itemindent=0em}}
 {\end{list}}

\begin{document}

\begin{noindlist}
\item \lipsum[1]
\lipsum[2]
\item \lipsum[1]
\lipsum[2]
\end{noindlist}

\end{document}

Another solution would be to just use a user-defined counter without defining a new list environment at all. Then you could just use ordinary block paragraphs with no indent and insert and increment the user-defined counter as first part of each numbered paragraph. Would be slightly less code than the 'noindlist' macro above.

You define the counter with same \newcounter{mycounter} command. Increment with \stepcounter{mycounter}. And insert with \arabic{mycounter}. You could define a little macro to do the step and the insert in same command in front of each numbered paragraph.