General ⇒ Space between rows in a shortenumerate

[dmt]

I am using the shortlist package and the shortenumerate environment. But the rows in the shortenumerate are too close together for me.

I know how to add space between items horizontally, but I can't figure out how to adjust the row spacing when you have more items than fit on a single row so that there end up multiple rows.

Can someone explain to me how to do this? Thanks.

[balf]

As is normal in such an environment, the distance between 'rows' is just \baselineskip.
So you might define a new environment in the following wey, that uses the setspace package :
\newenvironment{myshortenum}[1][default value for setstretch] {\setstretch{#1}\begin{shortenumerate}}{\end{shortenumerate}}

B.A.

[dmt]

Thanks, that was helpful, though I don't understand everything you did in your newenvironment command (I've never seen that that command used before). I looked into the setspace package a little and experimented with your suggestion and have gotten it much better now.

One more problem I am having though. I am using a shortenumerate inside of a normal enumerate and for some reason there is much more space above the shortenumerate list than under it (it is "attached" to the enumerate item above it as sub numbering, so there should be less space above it and more under to indicate this more clearly).

Is there something simple I can do to fix this issue?

[balf]

The vertical spacing in a list environment depends on no less than four parameters : \parsep, which is the vertical between paragraphs in ordinary text and is used between your main text and the beginning of the list (usually, it is 0pt by default). But also used are \topsep and \partopsep (I think this one is used when the list environment is introduced by a blank line). And finally \itemsep is used between successive items in the list.
I don't know which ones are used inside a list, before a sublist but you can play with them, making changes on entering in the 'myshortenum' environment (put them in the definition of myshortenum, so as to make the changes local).

What I did in the myshortenum environment was just to modify the \baselineskip (vertical distance between successive lines in ordinary text) by a factor. Btw, the usual \baselineskip is, in the opinion of many people, too small ; one can change this by setting, e.g. \linespread{#1}, in the preamble. A value between 1.05 and 1.1 is usally correct, but that depends on the font.

B.A.

[dmt]

Thanks a lot. That's really helpful.