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In Latex, how do I eliminate the space inserted before itemize?
\begin{itemize} % produces lots of vertical space
\item ...
\item ...
\end{itemize}
The way to fix this sort of problem is to redefine the relevant list environment. The enumitem package is my favourite way to do this sort of thing; it has many options and parameters that can be varied, either for all lists or for each list individually.
Here's how to do (something like) what it is I think you want:
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist{nolistsep}
or
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist{nosep}
Try \vspace{-5mm} before the itemize.
Use \vspace{-\topsep} before \begin{itemize}
Use \setlength{\parskip}{0pt} \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt plus 1pt} after \begin{itemize}
And for the space after the list, use \vspace{-\topsep} after \end{itemize}
\vspace{-\topsep}
\begin{itemize}
\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt plus 1pt}
\item ...
\item ...
\end{itemize}
\vspace{-\topsep}
The cleanest way for you to accomplish this is to use the enumitem package (https://ctan.org/pkg/enumitem). For example,
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}% http://ctan.org/pkg/enumitem
\begin{document}
\noindent Here is some text and I want to make sure
there is no spacing the different items.
\begin{itemize}[noitemsep]
\item Item 1
\item Item 2
\item Item 3
\end{itemize}
\noindent Here is some text and I want to make sure
there is no spacing between this line and the item
list below it.
\begin{itemize}[noitemsep,topsep=0pt]
\item Item 1
\item Item 2
\item Item 3
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
Furthermore, if you want to use this setting globally across lists, you can use
\usepackage{enumitem}% http://ctan.org/pkg/enumitem
\setlist[itemize]{noitemsep, topsep=0pt}
However, note that this package does not work well with the beamer package which is used to make presentations in Latex.
The "proper" LaTeX ways to do it is to use a package which allows you to specify the spacing you want. There are several such package, and these two pages link to lists of them...
TeX FAQ entry How to adjust list spacing
http://dcwww.camd.dtu.dk/~schiotz/comp/LatexTips/LatexTips.html
I'm very happy with the paralist package. Besides adding the option to eliminate the space it also adds other nice things like compact versions of the itemize, enumerate and describe environments.
\renewcommand{\#listI}{%
\leftmargin=25pt
\rightmargin=0pt
\labelsep=5pt
\labelwidth=20pt
\itemindent=0pt
\listparindent=0pt
\topsep=0pt plus 2pt minus 4pt
\partopsep=0pt plus 1pt minus 1pt
\parsep=0pt plus 1pt
\itemsep=\parsep}
Related
Suppose I want to center align the enumerated list. I did this:
\begin{center}
\begin{enumerate}[label=(\Roman*)]
\item Equation 1
\item Equation 2
\item Equation 3
\item Equation 4
\end{enumerate}
\end{center}
This is not working nicely. I have also tried without 'enumerate' and just 'center' and labeling manually. It does work but the alignment is not looking perfect.
Also instead for center we can also do:
I. Equation 1 \quad II. Equation 2
III. Equation 3 \quad IV.Equation 4
You cannot center an item list like that. Enumerate is a formatting environment that will supersedes the center environment.
What can be done is to put the enumerate list in a box (like a minipage), and to center this box.
Standard minipage requires a width, but there is a package (varwidth) that allows to define minipages with an unknown width (more precisely, you give a width parameter, but if width is smaller than that, the actual with is used).
So here is a solution with varwidth.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\usepackage{tasks}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\begin{varwidth}{\textwidth}
\begin{enumerate}[label=(\Roman*)]
\item Equation 1
\item Equation 2
\item Equation 3
\item Equation 4
\end{enumerate}
\end{varwidth}
\end{center}
\end{document}
If you want to have several enumerate items per line, your solution is not very robust, as you must adjust the spacing depending on the item length if you want your items to be aligned.
The 'tabto' package provides a way to do the alignment in a flexible way. But the best solution is to use the 'tasks' package that allows to define columned list. This package is not as smart as others to determine the item width and, if required, this must be given explicitely. The parenthesized parameter is the number of columns. As previously, if you want to center globally the environment, you must use varwidth.
\begin{center}
\begin{varwidth}{\textwidth}
\begin{tasks}[label={(\Roman*)},label-width={1cm}](2)
\task Equation 1
\task Equation 2
\task Equation 3
\task Equation 4
\end{tasks}
\end{varwidth}
\end{center}
For simple lists like yours, a tabular could also be used.
You can just use
\begin{enumerate}[label=(\Roman*)]\centering
I'm trying to make alignment points in a list environment. The following code gives me an error, but it almost compiles to what I want, just missing the bullet points. I must be misunderstanding something about align and/or tabular and how they work with linebreaks. Guidance appreciated!
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Title}
\begin{itemize}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
\item Topic Apple: &Something to say about it \\
\item Topic Watermelons: &Something different
\end{tabular}
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
How about this?
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Title}
\begin{tabular}{p{0.4\textwidth}p{0.5\textwidth}}
\begin{itemize}
\item Topic Apple:
\item Topic Watermelon:
\end{itemize} &
\begin{itemize}
\item[] Something to say about it
\item[] Something to say about it
\end{itemize} \\
\end{tabular}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Yours will actually work if you change {ll} to {p{width}l} or {p{width}p{width}} but I found that if you don't have itemize in the second column, your text ends up vertically top aligned while the itemized text in the left column is center (or maybe even slightly bottom) aligned vertically so it doesn't look good.
I tried using the array package and m{width} which provides a vertical center alignment but that was still different than whatever itemize is using. I'd say just play with the width argument inside of p{} to get the spacing/width you want. If your right column spills on to another line, you may need a "dummy" item in the right column.
Anyway, based on all the jimmy rigging that might be necessary if things spill onto two lines, I'm assuming my solution is potentially hackish but it looks like it provides what you want for the most part.
the \item[] for the right column is to create the same itemize alignment with no bullet. If you want bullets on the right, just remove the empty square brackets and you'll have them.
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}
I'd like to create a newenvironment that could contain two lists, each with an arbitrary number of items.
Some fixed text
\begin{itemize}
\item item 1
\item item 2
\item item 3
\item item 4
% Maybe more items
\end{itemize}
Some more fixed text
\begin{itemize}
\item item 5
\item item 6
% Could have more items here
\end{itemize}
Some text at the end
I am creating a presentation using Beamer, and I have a recurring slide structure on several slides (but not all). One that has two lists, and an image on the right. I would like to separate the content (the items and picture path) from the display. Let's say I wanted to have the picture on the right instead of left. I would like to be able to change the environment definition, and apply changes to all relevant slides.
Thank you
I'm not sure if I understand what you require. I guess a \newcommand might be all you need:
\newcommand{\myenvironment}[6]{%
Some fixed text
\begin{itemize}
\item #1
\item #2
\item #3
\item #4
\end{itemize}
Some more fixed text
\begin{itemize}
\item #5
\item #6
\end{itemize}
Some text at the end
}
If you put the above into the preamble of the document, you yould use
\myenvironment{item 1}{item 2}{item 3}{item 4}{item 5}{item 6}
within the text.
Please add some detail to what you require, if it is different. ;-)
Is there any way that I can change \parskip to a different value inside certain environments, namely enumerate and itemize.
I want to have space between paragraphs (\setlength{\parskip}{1em plus 1pt minus 1pt}), but not inside itemize or enumerate.
If you use the enumitem package, you can say in your preamble
\setlist[itemize]{parsep=0pt}
\setlist[enumerate]{parsep=0pt}
to get what you want. enumitem allows for doing much more list customization, see its documentation for details.
you can also use:
begin{itemize} \itemsep -5pt
\item foo
\item bar
\end{itemize}
and that will only affect the current list.
Yes you can; but you will have to alter either the enumerate and itemize environments from your class file (by copying them and adding your \parskip), or by redefining \#listi, which works for all lists:
\makeatletter
\def\#listi{%
% default settings for base LaTeX classes at 10pt:
\parsep 4pt plus 2pt minus 1pt
\topsep 8pt plus 2pt minus 4pt
\itemsep 4pt plus 2pt minus 1pt
% your settings:
\parskip 1em plus 1pt minus 1pt
}
\makeatother
If you want different settings at nested list levels, change \#listii, \#listiii etc.
The following addition to the preamble updates enumerate to make the suggested change:
\let\oldenumerate\enumerate% Keep a copy of \enumerate (or \begin{enumerate})
\let\endoldenumerate\endenumerate% Keep a copy of \endenumerate (or \end{enumerate})
\renewenvironment{enumerate}
{\begin{oldenumerate}
\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}}% Adjust \parskip to suit your needs
{\end{oldenumerate}}
Here is a complete minimal example showing the adjustment when setting \parskip to 0pt:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
\item First line
Second line
\end{enumerate}
\let\oldenumerate\enumerate
\let\endoldenumerate\endenumerate
\renewenvironment{enumerate}
{\begin{oldenumerate}
\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}}
{\end{oldenumerate}}
\begin{enumerate}
\item First line
Second line
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}
One would do exactly the same for itemize.