Text Formatting ⇒ Space between bullet and text (in itemize)

[pisoir]

I would like to set the space between the bullet in "itemize" list and the text. When I try something like

\item[$\bullet$\hspace{1cm}] Text...

it moves the bullet in the left direction (so it displaces it from the alignment of the document. I would like to define my own environment where I could set this space but I haven't found any solution how to do it correctly. I only found that "\itemsepxpt" sets the space between the items, but is there some command which would set also the space between the bullet and the text? Does anyone have any idea? Thanks.

[localghost]

Looks like a job for the enumitem package.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \blindtext
  \begin{itemize}[labelindent=1.5em,labelsep=1cm,leftmargin=*]
    \item \blindtext
    \item Two
    \item Three
  \end{itemize}
  \blindtext
\end{document}

If you want to set the parameters for the itemize environment globally, you can do this in the preamble.

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\setitemize{labelindent=1.5em,labelsep=1cm,leftmargin=*}

Now you can use the itemize environment without options with these settings applied to every itemized list.


Best regards
Thorsten

[pisoir]

Thanks. That was one fast and superb answer.