Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!ifistg!ifi!raichle From: raichle@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Bernd Raichle) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Item separation in itemize Keywords: LaTeX, itemize, \itemsep Message-ID: Date: 11 Dec 90 09:12:40 GMT References: Sender: news@ifistg.uucp Distribution: comp Organization: IfI, Univ. Stuttgart, W Germany Lines: 26 In-reply-to: blerner@empire.cs.umass.edu's message of 10 Dec 90 17:03:13 GMT > I want to change the separation between list elements in an itemize > environment in LaTex, but I don't know how. I have tried: > > \begin{itemize}{\itemsep 2in} > ... > \end{itemize} > > This doesn't change the separation distance at all. [...] The itemize-environment has no(!) arguments. So the assignment \itemsep=2in is grouped by the parenthesis... and at the end of the group (denoted by the right } after 2in) the old value of \itemsep is restored. \begin{itemize}\itemsep 2in ... \end{itemize} works. -bernd __________________________________________________________________________ Bernd Raichle, Student der Universit"at Stuttgart | "Le langage est source privat: Stettener Str. 73, D-7300 Esslingen | de malentendus" email: raichle@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de | (A. de Saint-Exupery)