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From: he@stollco.UUCP (Helge Oldach)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: LaTeX: unwanted vspace in nested list environments
Summary: use list environment
Message-ID: <162@stollco.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 90 09:21:35 GMT
References: <13490@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: he@stollco.UUCP (Helge Oldach)
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In article <13490@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> mrwittma@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Martin R. Wittmann) writes:
> \begin{description}
> 	\item[whatever:] \mbox{}\\
> 		\begin{itemize}
> 		\item some text
> 		\item more text
> 		\end{itemize}
> 	...
> \end{description}
> This created a HUGE gap between the bold 'whatever' and the 'bullet'
> below.  The gap was probably the sum of a \parskip and a \topsep or
> two.
> 
> Short of changing the \@listi... definitions in a new .sty file, 
> [...]

The itemize environment actually is a special kind of list environment.
So, \begin{itemize} is similar to \begin{list}{$\bullet$}{}. You can place
some additional commands between the {} brackets. Try: {\topsep 0pt
\parskip 0pt}. This should suit your needs, I think.

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