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Dave
Dave

Reputation: 2949

Latex Remove Spaces Between Items in List

What is the best way to format a list as to remove the spaces between list items.

Upvotes: 129

Views: 214796

Answers (5)

aljoshoh
aljoshoh

Reputation: 11

You can use this with negative numbers to change the separation manually

\begin{itemize}
\itemsep-1.5em
  \item foo
  \item bar
  \item baz
\end{itemize}

Upvotes: 1

Vertexwahn
Vertexwahn

Reputation: 8142

compactitem does the job.

\usepackage{paralist}

...

\begin{compactitem}[$\bullet$]
    \item Element 1
    \item Element 2
\end{compactitem}
\vspace{\baselineskip} % new line after list

Upvotes: 2

Stefan
Stefan

Reputation: 3620

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}

example

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.

Upvotes: 210

Bart Kiers
Bart Kiers

Reputation: 170158

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}

Upvotes: 50

Waldir Leoncio
Waldir Leoncio

Reputation: 11341

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

Upvotes: 13

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