What is the best way to format a list as to remove the spaces between list items.
It's easier with the enumitem package:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
Less space:
\begin{itemize}[noitemsep]
\item foo
\item bar
\item baz
\end{itemize}
Even more compact:
\begin{itemize}[noitemsep,nolistsep]
\item foo
\item bar
\item baz
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
The enumitem package provides a lot of features to customize bullets, numbering and lengths.
The paralist package provides very compact lists: compactitem, compactenum and even lists within paragraphs like inparaenum and inparaitem.
You could do something like this:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Normal:
\begin{itemize}
\item foo
\item bar
\item baz
\end{itemize}
Less space:
\begin{itemize}
\setlength{\itemsep}{1pt}
\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
\setlength{\parsep}{0pt}
\item foo
\item bar
\item baz
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
This question was already asked on https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/10684/vertical-space-in-lists. The highest voted answer also mentioned the enumitem package (here answered by Stefan), but I also like this one, which involves creating your own itemizing environment instead of loading a new package:
\newenvironment{myitemize}
{ \begin{itemize}
\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}
\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
\setlength{\parsep}{0pt} }
{ \end{itemize} }
Which should be used like this:
\begin{myitemize}
\item one
\item two
\item three
\end{myitemize}
Source: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/136050/12065
compactitem does the job.
\usepackage{paralist}
...
\begin{compactitem}[$\bullet$]
\item Element 1
\item Element 2
\end{compactitem}
\vspace{\baselineskip} % new line after list
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I would like create an bulleted list that contain and equation, how can I do? I have tru this but is not working and it gives me error. The package is already present in the code
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{itemize}
\begin{align*}
\item X_i it is a ...
\end{align*}
\end{itemize}
This is my base:
https://it.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-lucas/tnzgmxxqppwh
Your items seem to be mainly normal text, so I suggest to use inline math for the math parts:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item $X_i$ it is a ...
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
I'm trying to customize my itemize list in a Beamer slide using the noitemsep and topsep settings available in the enumitem package. However, using enumitem with Beamer causes the bullet points to disappear (images attached below). I also came to know that enumitem isn't really compatible with Beamer, and should not be used alongside the enumerate package, but I can't figure out what alternatives are available for my use case.
When I don't use enumitem
\begin{frame}
\begin{itemize}
\item Apples
\item Oranges
\item Bananas
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
Output (contains bullet points):
When I use enumitem:
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{frame}
\begin{itemize}[noitemsep]
\item Apples
\item Oranges
\item Bananas
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
Output (the bullets have disappeared):
Any hints regarding what settings I should use with enumitem when using Beamer, or what other alternative packages I can use (which is more compatible with Beamer) which can fulfill my objective, would be greatly appreciated.
Don't use enumitem with beamer, it is not compatible.
You can adjust the spacing in various ways, either locally or globally.
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
text
\vskip-1ex
\begin{itemize}
\addtolength{\itemsep}{-1ex}
\item Apples
\item Oranges
\item Bananas
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\xpatchcmd{\itemize}
{\def\makelabel}
{%
\addtolength{\itemsep}{-1ex}%
\def\makelabel%
}
{}
{}
\BeforeBeginEnvironment{itemize}{\vskip-1ex}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
text
\begin{itemize}
\item Apples
\item Oranges
\item Bananas
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
I was wondering, if there is any way to have an enumeration using LaTeX to have something like:
1. (a) Some text, some text
(b) Some more text
2. (a) Yet some more text
(b) Something more ...
Please note that I can very well have
1. Somethig here ...
(a) Some text
(b) Some more text
2. Another text
(a) Something here ...
(b) Etc. etc.
What you show is simply the default behaviour of enumerate:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
\item
\begin{enumerate}
\item test
\item test
\end{enumerate}
\item
\begin{enumerate}
\item test
\item test
\end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}
In latex, I can use itemize and \item as follows.
\begin{itemize}
\item ...
\end{itemize}
I also can write as follows.
\begin{itemize}
\item[(any strings)] ...
\end{itemize}
However I can't write as follows.
\begin{itemize}
\item[\includegraphics{imagename}] ...
\end{itemize}
I want to use figures as \item of itemize in latex.
Any ideas?
The more robust way of doing this is to enclose the \includegraphics within braces. This way, you can also set optional parameters if you need to.
\begin{itemize}
\item[{\includegraphics{imagename}}]
\item[{\includegraphics[scale=.5]{imagename}}]
\end{itemize}
I think the solution is to switch from
\item[\includegraphics{imagename}] ...
to
\item \includegraphics{imagename} ...
The following code, for example, should compile smoothly:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item \includegraphics{test.jpg} some text
\item \includegraphics{test.jpg} some other
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
(make sure you have a test image file test.jpg in the same folder of your .tex file before compiling).
Other thing is to use \item[...] to change the item mark:
\begin{itemize}
\item[$\bullet$] \includegraphics{test.jpg} some text
\item[$\diamond$] \includegraphics{test.jpg} some other
\end{itemize}
Finally, if you have a small/icon size image in your folder (one, test.jpg, or more), you can try this variation:
\begin{itemize}
\item[] \includegraphics{test.jpg} some text
\item[] \includegraphics{test.jpg} some other
\end{itemize}
Although Matt solution solved your problem, I believe that it is not exactly what you was looking for. From what I understand you want to use your own images instead of default dots of \item in \itemize. Best solution 3 leads to "space_aka_different_dot image text", so your image won't be exactly in dot place - emptiness will. You should try instead:
\begin{itemize}
\item[$\includegraphics{test.jpg}$] text
\end{itemize}
In beamer frames I want the contents to be spread out evenly across the frame.
Using option \documentclass[slidestop]{beamer} I can easily specify the contents to be top/center aligned but when I have only few bullets on a slide they get clustered together at the top, I want beamer to decide the spacing between them automatically to spread them evenly.
Is this possible without putting vspace by trial and error?
I think using \vfill would reduce the trial and error part. One \vfill between each bullet should guarantee even spacing. Try \vfill before and/or after bullets to get separation from preceding text or from bottom of page. I don't use or know Beamer, but I suspect there's a way to put the \vfill commands into the Beamer template.
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\vfill\item This is text of first item
\vfill\item This is text of second item
\vfill\item This is text of third item
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
Per your comment, here's one way you could define vfill to be automatically used in main list items but have no vfill in subitems. THis way lets you use same \item command regardless of whether you're in main list or in nested list, but requires you to define or redefine environments, and to be aware of when you're adding a main (i.e, vfilled) list and when you're adding a non-vfilled (i.e, nested) list:
\documentclass{article}
\newenvironment{novfillenum}{\begin{enumerate}\let\item\olditem}%
{\end{enumerate}}
\newenvironment{vfilleditems}{\begin{itemize} \let\olditem\item \renewcommand\item{\vfill\olditem}}%
{\end{itemize}}
\begin{document}
\begin{vfilleditems}
\item Item One
\begin{novfillenum}
\item subitem1
\item s2
\item s3
\end{novfillenum}
\item Item Two
\begin{novfillenum}
\item subitem1
\item s2
\item s3
\end{novfillenum}
\item item three
\begin{novfillenum}
\item subitem1
\item s2
\item s3
\end{novfillenum}
\end{vfilleditems}
\end{document}
Adding another sample here because first answer getting too crowded. Tested altering the label commands and, what do you know, it seems to work, sort of. It gives errors, though, which I'm sure are related to having the \vfill as part of the label construct. I'm surprised it does seem to create the desired output, but the method would need some tweaking to get it to work without errors:
\begin{document}
\let\oldlabelitemi\labelitemi
\renewcommand{\labelitemi}{\vfill\oldlabelitemi{\hspace{1ex}}}
\begin{itemize}
\item Item One
\begin{itemize}
\item subone
\item subtwo
\item subthree
\end{itemize}
\item Item Two
\begin{itemize}
\item subitem1
\item s2
\item s3
\end{itemize}
\item item three
\begin{itemize}
\item subitem1
\item s2
\item s3
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\end{document}