LaTeX: indentation itemize

March 8th, 2007 | work | 15 Comments »
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Ever wondered how to change the indentation in the LaTeX itemize environment? Well, it can’t. When you use the itemize environment in LaTeX your items (\item) will automatically be indented about 2em. Sometimes however (like me yesterday), this indentation is not needed and you want the items in you list to be aligned as the text. However in that case you will have to use the list environment. This is a general environment that can be used for any kind of list and of which the itemize is a special case. To generate an itemize without identation use the following code:

\begin{list}{\labelitemi}{\leftmargin=1em}
\item First item in the list
\item Second item
\item and so on
\end{list}
For more information on the list environment, check this website

15 Comments on “LaTeX: indentation itemize”

  1. 1 Shane said at 14:07 on March 23rd, 2007:

    Thanks for the tip. Solved a problem for me.

  2. 2 Landeiro said at 22:20 on August 31st, 2007:

    Thanks, works like a charm

  3. 3 Stephen said at 17:36 on February 13th, 2008:

    Thanks, this tip helped me out with a problem. Now if only I had the time to create a few specialised list environments for my own use.

  4. 4 Alex said at 11:16 on May 11th, 2008:

    Thank you soo much!

  5. 5 Dani said at 20:59 on June 25th, 2008:

    Great! This is exactly what I needed.
    Thank you!

  6. 6 Steffen said at 14:39 on October 23rd, 2008:

    Thanks, just what I was looking for!
    Steffen

  7. 7 David said at 00:23 on November 18th, 2008:

    Thanks a lot!

  8. 8 sai said at 06:12 on January 12th, 2009:

    Thank you!

  9. 9 Joshua Gay said at 17:59 on April 17th, 2009:

    You may also be interested in the enumitem package. I came across this page titled “Examples of how to use the Enumitem Package in the LaTeX Typesetting System”, today, here, http://tkcs-collins.com/truman/latex/list_examp.shtml

  10. 10 Karo said at 15:12 on July 8th, 2009:

    Thanks!

  11. 11 IMDagger said at 12:43 on July 9th, 2009:

    Cool, thanks, it works! My problem is solved.

  12. 12 Matt said at 00:39 on September 29th, 2009:

    Thanks, it was very useful!

  13. 13 elsallam said at 05:19 on October 13th, 2009:

    Many thanks, have been struggling with \begin{itemize} for hours.

  14. 14 Arti said at 02:06 on November 12th, 2009:

    Thank you very much! Works perfectly!

  15. 15 arthurx said at 11:57 on November 21st, 2009:

    exactly what i wanted, thank you Dirk

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