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Article #6793Re: LaTeX: unwanted vspace in nested list environments
From: Helge Oldach
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 09:21
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 09:21
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In article <13490@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> mrwittma@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Martin R. Wittmann) writes:
> \begin{description}
> \item[whatever:] \mbox{}\\
> \begin{itemize}
> \item some text
> \item more text
> \end{itemize}
> ...
> \end{description}
> This created a HUGE gap between the bold 'whatever' and the 'bullet'
> below. The gap was probably the sum of a \parskip and a \topsep or
> two.
>
> Short of changing the \@listi... definitions in a new .sty file,
> [...]
The itemize environment actually is a special kind of list environment.
So, \begin{itemize} is similar to \begin{list}{$\bullet$}{}. You can place
some additional commands between the {} brackets. Try: {\topsep 0pt
\parskip 0pt}. This should suit your needs, I think.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!mcsun!unido!stollco!he From: he@stollco.UUCP (Helge Oldach) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: LaTeX: unwanted vspace in nested list environments Summary: use list environment Message-ID: <162@stollco.UUCP> Date: 5 Feb 90 09:21:35 GMT References: <13490@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Reply-To: he@stollco.UUCP (Helge Oldach) Organization: Stollmann GmbH, D 2000 Hamburg 50 Lines: 25