LaTeX unwanted itemize indentation on first element

Question

In my document whenever I use itemize, the first element has an unwanted indentation. In each chapter I use \ident, could this be causing a problem? How to I fix the unwanted indentation? I want to keep the standard itemize indentation and just adjust the first item. The document is being edited on Overleaf.

This is what is looks like:

My goal

This is in an example code which replicates the issue for me:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[table,xcdraw]{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[colorinlistoftodos]{todonotes}
\usepackage[toc,page]{appendix}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{commath}
\usepackage{transparent}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\usepackage[unicode=true,
 bookmarks=true,bookmarksnumbered=true,bookmarksopen=true,bookmarksopenlevel=1,
 breaklinks=false,pdfborder={0 0 0},pdfborderstyle={},backref=false,colorlinks=false]
 {hyperref}
\hypersetup{pdftitle={Your Title},
 pdfauthor={Your Name},
 pdfpagelayout=OneColumn, pdfnewwindow=true, pdfstartview=XYZ, plainpages=false}
\makeatletter
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}
\usepackage[caption=false,font=footnotesize]{subfig} 
\usepackage[caption=false,font=footnotesize]{subfig}
\@ifundefined{showcaptionsetup}{}{%
\PassOptionsToPackage{caption=false}{subfig}}
\usepackage{subfig}
\makeatother

\usepackage{makecell}
\usepackage[official]{eurosym}
\usepackage{comment}
\usepackage{booktabs}

%-----------HEADER AND FOOTER DEFINITION-----------%

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\renewcommand{\headheight}{0.7in}
\setlength{\headwidth}{\textwidth}
\rhead{% left
\raisebox{0.25in}{\textcolor{gray}{\large Namen}}
}
\lhead{ % right
  % \transparent{0.5}\includegraphics[height=0.6in]{Logo_novo_FEUPbranco.jpg}
}
\pagestyle{fancy}
%\fancyhf{} % sets both header and footer to nothing
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}




%\usepackage{eurosym}
\usepackage[section]{placeins}

\renewcommand\theadalign{bc}
\renewcommand\theadfont{\bfseries}
\renewcommand\theadgape{\Gape[4pt]}
\renewcommand\cellgape{\Gape[4pt]}

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\chapterauthor}[1]{%
  {\parindent0pt\vspace*{-5pt}%
  \linespread{1.1}\large\slshape#1%
  \par\nobreak\vspace*{45pt}}
  \@afterheading%
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}

% ------------------ TITLE PAGE -------------------

\begin{titlepage}

\newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}} % Defines a new command for the horizontal lines, change thickness here
\setlength{\topmargin}{0in}
\center % Center everything on the page






%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%   HEADING SECTIONS
%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\textsc{\Large xxxxt }\\[1.5cm] 


\HRule \\[0.4cm]
{ \bfseries \textbf{ title:} Here\\[0.4cm] % Title of your document
\HRule \\[1cm]
}

%----------------------------------------------------------------------
%   AUTHOR SECTION
%----------------------------------------------------------------------


%\begin{minipage}[b][][b]{\linewidth}

\end{titlepage}

% ------------------------------- body --------------------

%%%%%%%%--------- TABLE OF CONTENT ----------%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\newpage
\tableofcontents

%%%%%%%%%%-------- ABSTRACT %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\newpage
\renewcommand{\abstractname}{Abstract}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Abstract}
\begin{abstract}
  \paragraph{}
  \par  The fu 

\end{abstract}

%%%%%%%%%% INTRODUCTION %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\newpage
\section{Introduction} \label{introduction}



\indent 
\par In

\par This report is divided in xx fs:
\begin{itemize}
    \item Chapter 2:
    \item Chapter 3:
    \item Chapter 4:
    \item Chapter 5:
\end{itemize}  

\end{document}

Thank you.

Answer 1

The problem is utterly unrelated to the itemization, you should not even know how the itemisation looks like. You must not have \paragraph{} within the abstract environment. This will cause an error:

Never ever ignore errors!

And don't even look at what might or might not be a valid pdf file if there are still errors!

After an error tex only recovers enough to syntax check the rest of the document, it does not attempt to produce reasonable output.

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Other problems:

• hyperref should be loaded as one of the last packages

• \center only works by accident, better use \centering

• TeX aims to separate the layout and the content. The fact that you have to mess with formatting instructions inside your text, e.g. \indent\parshould tell you that there is something fundamentally wrong. For example if the first paragraph of a section should be indented, use theindentfirst` package.

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[table,xcdraw]{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[colorinlistoftodos]{todonotes}
\usepackage[toc,page]{appendix}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{commath}
\usepackage{transparent}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\usepackage{indentfirst}

\makeatletter
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}
\usepackage[caption=false,font=footnotesize]{subfig} 
\usepackage[caption=false,font=footnotesize]{subfig}
\@ifundefined{showcaptionsetup}{}{%
\PassOptionsToPackage{caption=false}{subfig}}
\usepackage{subfig}
\makeatother

\usepackage{makecell}
\usepackage[official]{eurosym}
\usepackage{comment}
\usepackage{booktabs}

\usepackage[unicode=true,
 bookmarks=true,bookmarksnumbered=true,bookmarksopen=true,bookmarksopenlevel=1,
 breaklinks=false,pdfborder={0 0 0},pdfborderstyle={},backref=false,colorlinks=false]
 {hyperref}
\hypersetup{pdftitle={Your Title},
 pdfauthor={Your Name},
 pdfpagelayout=OneColumn, pdfnewwindow=true, pdfstartview=XYZ, plainpages=false}

%-----------HEADER AND FOOTER DEFINITION-----------%

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\renewcommand{\headheight}{0.7in}
\setlength{\headwidth}{\textwidth}
\rhead{% left
\raisebox{0.25in}{\textcolor{gray}{\large Namen}}
}
\lhead{ % right
  % \transparent{0.5}\includegraphics[height=0.6in]{Logo_novo_FEUPbranco.jpg}
}
\pagestyle{fancy}
%\fancyhf{} % sets both header and footer to nothing
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}




%\usepackage{eurosym}
\usepackage[section]{placeins}

\renewcommand\theadalign{bc}
\renewcommand\theadfont{\bfseries}
\renewcommand\theadgape{\Gape[4pt]}
\renewcommand\cellgape{\Gape[4pt]}

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\chapterauthor}[1]{%
  {\parindent0pt\vspace*{-5pt}%
  \linespread{1.1}\large\slshape#1%
  \par\nobreak\vspace*{45pt}}
  \@afterheading%
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}

% ------------------ TITLE PAGE -------------------

\begin{titlepage}

\newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}} % Defines a new command for the horizontal lines, change thickness here
\setlength{\topmargin}{0in}
\centering % Center everything on the page






%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%   HEADING SECTIONS
%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\textsc{\Large xxxxt }\\[1.5cm] 


\HRule \\[0.4cm]
{ \bfseries \textbf{ title:} Here\\[0.4cm] % Title of your document
\HRule \\[1cm]
}

%----------------------------------------------------------------------
%   AUTHOR SECTION
%----------------------------------------------------------------------


%\begin{minipage}[b][][b]{\linewidth}

\end{titlepage}

% ------------------------------- body --------------------

%%%%%%%%--------- TABLE OF CONTENT ----------%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\newpage
\tableofcontents

%%%%%%%%%%-------- ABSTRACT %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\newpage
\renewcommand{\abstractname}{Abstract}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Abstract}
\begin{abstract}
%  \paragraph{}
    The fu 
\end{abstract}

%%%%%%%%%% INTRODUCTION %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\newpage
\section{Introduction} \label{introduction}

In

This report is divided in xx fs:
\begin{itemize}
    \item Chapter 2:
    \item Chapter 3:
    \item Chapter 4:
    \item Chapter 5:
\end{itemize}  

\end{document}