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From: crl@newton.physics.purdue.edu (Charles R. LaBrec)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Limit/adjust space between `items' in *TeX
Message-ID: <682@newton.physics.purdue.edu>
Date: Tue, 9-Dec-86 10:54:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  9 10:54:57 1986
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Reply-To: crl@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (R Charles R. LaBrec, 97,43020,7436070)
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In article <520@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> rusty@weyl.Berkeley.EDU (Rusty Wright) writes:
>2. You can't simply do something like
>	...
>
>because the \begin{itemize} command contains commands that set the
>values of \itemsep and \parsep (see the definitions of \@listi,

That's strange, because in my version of latex, it works fine to reset
\parskip .  This is because the slides style defn of \@listi is:
	\def\@listi{\parsep .5\parskip
	\topsep \parsep
	\itemsep\parskip
	\partopsep 0pt}
\parskip is not reset.  I've used this feature many a time.

Charles LaBrec
crl @ newton.physics.purdue.edu
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Charles LaBrec
crl @ newton.physics.purdue.edu