Eliminate space before \begin{itemize}

Question

In Latex, how do I eliminate the space inserted before itemize?

\begin{itemize} % produces lots of vertical space
\item ...
\item ...
\end{itemize}

Answer 1

Try \vspace{-5mm} before the itemize

Answer 2

The "proper" LaTeX ways to do it is to use a package which allows you to specify the spacing you want. There are several such package, and these two pages link to lists of them...

• http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=complist
• http://dcwww.camd.dtu.dk/~schiotz/comp/LatexTips/LatexTips.html

Answer 3

\renewcommand{\@listI}{% \leftmargin=25pt \rightmargin=0pt \labelsep=5pt \labelwidth=20pt \itemindent=0pt \listparindent=0pt \topsep=0pt plus 2pt minus 4pt \partopsep=0pt plus 1pt minus 1pt \parsep=0pt plus 1pt \itemsep=\parsep}

Answer 4

I'm very happy with the paralist package. Besides adding the option to eliminate the space it also adds other nice things like compact versions of the itemize, enumerate and describe environments.

Answer 5

The way to fix this sort of problem is to redefine the relevant list environment. The enumitem package is my favourite way to do this sort of thing; it has many options and parameters that can be varied, either for all lists or for each list individually.

Here's how to do (something like) what it is I think you want:

\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist{nolistsep}

Answer 6

Anyone knows how to eliminate space after itemize? I have the exact same problem as described here: http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=5202&start=0 Thanx in advance for any response.