Text Formatting ⇒ removing indent from list?

[martman]

Im trying to remove the indentation from lists like this, with no luck. Any ideas?

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\begin{multicols}{2}
        \begin{itemize}
                \setlength{\itemsep}{1pt}
                \setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
                \setlength{\parsep}{0pt}
                \setlength{\leftmargin}{-.25in}
                \item a
                \item b
                \item c
                \item d
                \item e
                \item f
        \end{itemize}
\end{multicols}

[frabjous]

The easiest way is to load the enumitem package and use some of its options, e.g.:

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        \begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*]
                \item a
                \item b
                \item c
                \item d
                \item e
                \item f
        \end{itemize}

See the enumitem package documentation for more information and more options.

[martman]

That helped with indenting nicely.

Now I'm noticing that if I start a list like that at the top of a section, the first elements in each column arnt lined up. Know how to fix that anychance?


Thanks

[frabjous]

Please provide a fully compilable minimal example of what you mean. At the moment, I don't know how to duplicate this problem. It seems to work fine for me at the start of a section, at least in the article class with no other packages besides multicol and enumitem loaded.

[martman]

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\documentclass[12]{report}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{anysize}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\thispagestyle{empty}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setlength{\parindent}{0in}

\marginsize{1.5in}{.75in}{.0in}{0in}
\setlength{\parskip}{-.125in}

\titleformat{\section}[leftmargin] {
	\normalfont 
	\large
	\sffamily
	\bfseries
	\filleft
}{\thesection}{.25in}{} 

\titlespacing{\section}{1.25in}{.25in}{.125in} 

\begin{document}
	\section*{Foo Bar}
	\begin{multicols}{2}
		\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*]
			\setlength{\itemsep}{1pt}
			\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
			\setlength{\parsep}{0pt}
		
			\item a
			\item b
			\item c
			\item d
			\item e
			\item f
		\end{itemize} 
	\end{multicols}
\end{document}