So for lists I would like to be able to use (1) (2) etc however I would also like to be able to make compact lists something like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4968557/latex-very-compact-itemize
which requires using the package enumitem
but that makes \begin{enumerate}[{(1)}] not work
\documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage[letterpaper,margin=1in]{geometry} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{enumerate} \usepackage{enumitem} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage[demo, % in real document remove this option export]{adjustbox} \begin{document} \begin{enumerate}[{(1)}] \item Each $T \in \mathcal{T}$ is either an even face or contains exactly 2 faces in its interior; \item the interiors of distinct $T \in \mathcal{T}$ are disjoint. \end{enumerate} \end{document} 

enumerateandenumitem. On the other hand,[{(1)}]doesn't seem something good for either package.enumerateonly sets the item labels.