List spacing and Latex
I was finding my list environments (enumerate, itemize, etc.) in Latex were taking up a lot of space. While space isn’t a huge concern in a dissertation, they tended to look a bit too… spaced out. I did a bit of research on this and mostly remedied the situation. Turns out that by default the list environments use extra line spacing, so if you’ve already got 1.5 line spacing to begin with, they end up being huge.
Some people advocate creating your own new environment commands where you manually set some of the spacing lengths down.
Another blog provides some very good information on reducing whitespace. This helped a bit for me, but it wasn’t quite what I was looking for.
I found out about the package enumitem. This is quite cool, making it very easy to set the line spacing to something reasonable for all of your lists. I did something like:
- % enumitem setup
- \setlist{noitemsep,topsep=0pt}
- \setitemize{noitemsep,topsep=0pt}
- \setenumerate{noitemsep,topsep=0pt}
It’s still not perfect. I still end up with lots of white space between a paragraph and a list. But its much better than it was.
Hi,
you can also try package ‘paralist’ if you need compact (or more customizable) list environments.
Just my 5 cents.
Regards
Pietro
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