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From: maher@clio.sts.uiuc.edu (Patrick Maher)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: How to change spaces in LaTeX lists?
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.020345.3481@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 02:03:45 GMT
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I'm trying to remove the vertical spaces in \itemize and \enumerate
environments. I realize I could do that by defining new list
environments; but since I want all environments changed the same, and no
other changes, it seemed preferable to just change the default values of
\topsep, \parskip, \parsep and \itemsep to 0pt. Easy as that sounds, I
haven't figured out how to do it.

I tried setting them to 0pt in the document, with no effect. And I tried
adding the following style file as a style option, also with no effect:
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\catcode`@=11
\def\@normalsize{\@setsize\normalsize{14.5pt}\xiipt\@xiipt
\abovedisplayskip 12pt plus3pt minus7pt\belowdisplayskip \abovedisplayskip
\abovedisplayshortskip \z@ plus3pt\belowdisplayshortskip 6.5pt plus3.5pt
minus3pt\let\@listi\@listI} 
\def\small{\@setsize\small{13.6pt}\xipt\@xipt
\abovedisplayskip 11pt plus3pt minus6pt\belowdisplayskip \abovedisplayskip
\abovedisplayshortskip \z@ plus3pt\belowdisplayshortskip 6.5pt plus3.5pt
minus3pt
\def\@listi{\leftmargin\leftmargini \parsep 0pt plus 2pt  %Lengths here
\itemsep \parsep                                          %changed to
 \topsep 0pt plus 3pt}}                                   %0 pt.
\@listi
\catcode`@=12
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Why don't these work? What should I do?

Patrick Maher                                Department of Philosophy
p-maher@uiuc.edu                     University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign