Lists

Published on 30 Nov 2007
Tags #LaTeX

List environments like itemize can be customized.

Itemize with small item spacing:

\begin{itemize}
\setlength{\itemsep}{0mm}
\item ITEM1
\item ITEM2
\end{itemize}

Length	Description
\topsep	Vertival space before and after list environment
\itemsep	Vertical space between lines
\parsep	Vertical space between paragraphs inside an item
\partopsep	Vertical space before list environment if it starts a new paragraph

NOTE: You will not be able to modify topsep and partopsep inside a list environment because the space was already added at that point.

NOTE: The default values of these lengths depend on the depth of the list environment.

See Dense Lists for an example how to modify topsep and partopsep

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