I had a problem set where each question had multiple sub-parts: a, b, c; etc. I was typing the solution up in LaTeX and it wasn’t obvious what was the cleanest way to identify my answers.
I ended up with code like this:
\section*{Question 1}
\new This is my answer to part a.
\new This is my answer to part b
This formatting results in something like this:
That’s exactly what I was looking for. It requires two lines of code at the start of your document:
\newcounter{my_count}
\newcommand{\new}{\vspace{0.3cm}\addtocounter{my_count}{1} (\alph{my_count}) }