spacing
Easy question for those in the know 🙂
I can produce a itemised list like this
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}% http://ctan.org/pkg/enumitem
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item banana
\item mango
\item Meg Ryan
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
But when I use text bullets the space between the bullet and the text is ignored
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Steven Segal \textbullet is \textbullet a \textbullet really \textbullet bad shot!
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
I don't really get the question so I hope this is what you wanted. If you include a full document (such that we copy paste and see the problem on our systems) things are much more easier.
Here, you can change the default setting within a scope but your block style had a node distance which was resetting every time it is issued. I've made it 2mm such that we can see the difference easier.
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows,shapes.geometric,positioning}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[decision/.style={diamond, draw, text width=4.5em, text badly centered, node distance=3.5cm, inner sep=0pt},
block/.style ={rectangle, draw, text width=6em, text centered, rounded corners, minimum height=4em, minimum height=2em},
cloud/.style ={draw, ellipse, minimum height=2em},
line/.style ={draw,-latex'},
node distance = 1cm,
auto]
\node [block] (1st) {1st};
\node [block, right= of 1st] (2nd1) {2nd1};
\begin{scope}[node distance=2mm and 10mm]%Here we change it for everything inside this scope
\node [block, above= of 2nd1] (2nd2) {2nd2};
\node [block, below= of 2nd1] (2nd3) {2nd3};
\node [block, right= of 2nd1] (3rd1) {3rd1};
\node [block, above= of 3rd1] (3rd2) {3rd2};
\node [block, above= of 3rd2] (3rd3) {3rd3};
\end{scope}
\node [block, below= of 3rd1] (3rd4) {3rd4};
\node [block, below= of 3rd4] (3rd5) {3rd5};
\path [line] (1st) -- (2nd1);
\path [line] (2nd1) -- (2nd2);
\path [line] (2nd1) -- (2nd3);
\path [line] (2nd2) -- (3rd3);
\path [line] (2nd1) -- (3rd1);
\path [line] (1st) -- (2nd1);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
The parskip package changes the definition of \@listi, \@listii and \@listiii to use different values for the parameters \topsep, \itemsep and \parsep; it sets the first two to zero and the third to \parskip.
This explains why you don't get additional space in the box when parskip is loaded. When it isn't, the normal spacings are applied.
Solution, independent on parskip: add nosep to the options passed to itemize.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{showframe}
\begin{document}
\noindent
\colorbox{blue!20}{%
\parbox[t]{\dimexpr\linewidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{
\begin{itemize}[label={\small \texttt{X:}},nosep]
\item \texttt{some text fff yyy}
\end{itemize}
}%
}
\newline
\colorbox{blue!20}{%
\parbox[t]{\dimexpr\linewidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{
\begin{itemize}[label={\small \texttt{Y:}},nosep]
\item \texttt{some more text fff yyy}
\end{itemize}
}%
}
\end{document}
Best Answer
You have to insert a space after it, using
Also, you don't need the
enumitempackage for this neither foritemizeenvironment.