I am writing one list after one text.
Following is list items:
1. Pen
2. Hen
3. Ten
I need to reduce spacing between text (Following is list items:) and beginning of list (Pen). How can I reduce it?
Itemize – How to Reduce Space at Beginning of Itemize
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Related Solutions
The paralist package provides compressed lists, the new environments are called compactitem, compactenum and compactdesc. Use it just like the corresponding standard list environments. It can even keep lists within a paragraph.
The enumitem provides more features but also compressed lists, for instance by
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist{nolistsep,leftmargin=*}
\setlist modifies all lists, \setitemize just itemize etc. It takes an optional parameter that stands for the level that should be changed, default it alters all levels. Since enumitem allows a lot more customization I prefer it over paralist, but the latter is easier to use and fits better to the question here.
The answer, as in the other thread, is to use enumitem instead of enumerate package.
If you load it with the shortlabels option
\usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}
you can keep the same syntax of enumerate.
Then you can issue, for example
\setlist[enumerate]{noitemsep}
if you want to eliminate the spacing between items or
\setlist[enumerate]{itemsep=1pt}
if you want to reduce it to 1pt.
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}
\setlist[enumerate]{noitemsep}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}[-]
\item ABC
\item DEF
\item XYZ
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}
Output:
If you want the change to be locally, instead of declaring
\setlist[enumerate]{noitemsep}
you can insert noitemsep in the enumerate options, as in
\begin{enumerate}[-,noitemsep]
Best Answer
Use the package
enumitem:The package allows you easy access to change the parameters which control the list environments:
enumerate,description, anditemize.Other parameters to adjust vertical spacing are:
partopsep,parsep,itemsep. You pass these to the environment through an optional argument as keys as I did above withtopsep=0ex.