How do I hide bullets in LaTeX lists?

Question

Semantically, I want an itemized list, but visually I just want some space. How can I hide the bullets?

Answer 1

\item[] text

Optionally, you can put something inside the [].

Answer 2

What you probably want is a generalized list:

\begin{list}{\quad}{}
\item ...
\end{list}

The second argument to this environment is the symbol that will be inserted in front of every item.

(warning: I have not tested this, only lifted it from Guide to LaTeX)

Answer 3

I think the best solution would be to use enumitem (PDF) package from CTAN: it should be present in most TeX distributions (it is present in teTeX). Then you would be able to use.

\begin{itemize}[label=]
\item ...
...
\end{itemize}

Not tested!

Answer 4

The bullet itself is a macro so you can easily redefine it globally like this:

\renewcommand{\labelitemi}{$\star$}

In your case just leave the macro empty. See this page for details.

Answer 5

I can't speak for any other setup, but I'm using Tufte-Latex on MacTex, and I just typed the following:

\begin{itemize}[]

It worked. :-) I love it when guessing does that. So just try adding [] after.

P.S. the "generalized" list from lindelof worked also, but they didn't line up as nicely as with itemize. Jakub's suggestion was what inspired my guess, when I tried it, I got a bunch of "label=" strings as bullet points.

Answer 6

My response is quite late for this thread but thought I will add it for the benefit of any future searchers.

I accomplished this by using the description environment and using blanks for the \item commands.

e.g

\begin{description}
\item[] first item
\end{description}

That worked fine for me.