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From: texinfo1@rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Rainer Schoepf)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: How to change spaces in LaTeX lists?
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.200214.5253@rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: 20 Jun 91 20:02:14 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.020345.3481@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
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In article <1991Jun19.020345.3481@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> maher@clio.sts.uiuc.edu (Patrick Maher) writes:
>
>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:
>___________________________________________________________________________
>\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
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Why don't these work? What should I do?
>
>Patrick Maher                                Department of Philosophy
>p-maher@uiuc.edu                     University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


You should define \@listI instead of \@listi. See for example art10.doc
from where I extracted the following lines:

% \@listI defines top level and \@listi values of
% \leftmargin, \topsep, \parsep, and \itemsep
% (Added 9 Jun 87)
\def\@listI{\leftmargin\leftmargini \parsep 4pt plus 2pt minus 1pt%
\topsep 8pt plus 2pt minus 4pt%
\itemsep 4pt plus 2pt minus 1pt}
 
\let\@listi\@listI
\@listi 


Rainer Sch"opf