Das geht soweit ich rausgefunden habe mit dem package enumitem. Ein kurzes Beispiel was meine Anforderung erfuellen sollte:
\documentclass[12pt]{scrartcl} \usepackage{enumitem} \begin{document} \newlist{mylist}{enumerate}{5} \setlist[mylist]{label*=\arabic*] \begin{enumerate}[label=\arabic*] \item 1 \item 2 \begin{mylist} \item 21 \end{mylist} \end{enumerate} \end{document}

This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) (format=pdflatex 2009.11.2) 16 NOV 2009 19:49 entering extended mode %&-line parsing enabled. **test.tex (./test.tex LaTeX2e <2005/12/01> Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh yphenation, croatian, ukrainian, russian, bulgarian, czech, slovak, danish, dut ch, finnish, basque, french, german, ngerman, ibycus, greek, monogreek, ancient greek, hungarian, italian, latin, mongolian, norsk, icelandic, interlingua, tur kish, coptic, romanian, welsh, serbian, slovenian, estonian, esperanto, upperso rbian, indonesian, polish, portuguese, spanish, catalan, galician, swedish, loa ded. 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Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> m l.5 \setlist[mylist] {label*=\arabic*] A number should have been here; I inserted `0'. (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number, look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.) ) Runaway definition? ->label*=\arabic *] \par \begin {enumerate}[label=\arabic *] \item 1 \ETC. ! File ended while scanning definition of \enit@listmylist. <inserted text> } <*> test.tex I suspect you have forgotten a `}', causing me to read past where you wanted me to stop. I'll try to recover; but if the error is serious, you'd better type `E' or `X' now and fix your file. ! Emergency stop. <*> test.tex *** (job aborted, no legal \end found) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 849 strings out of 94101 11646 string characters out of 1165810 67132 words of memory out of 1500000 4197 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000 3938 words of font info for 15 fonts, out of 1200000 for 2000 637 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191 30i,1n,28p,171b,45s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,6000p,200000b,5000s ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!