Text Formatting ⇒ Alignment of left Margin in 'itemize' Environment fails

[Despot Despondency]

Hi,

I'm trying to set the left margin in the itemize environment with no success.

I'm writing a poster for a conference and so am very short on space. I've decreased the distance between the bullet point and the left margin with the command

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\setlength{\itemindent}{-1em}

but now the lines after the first line (of the same item) still have the same indent as before. I've attached a pdf file with an example of the problem that I'm having.

I've tried using the command

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\setlength{\leftmargin}{-1em}

within the itemize environment but it's not working.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

TAI

[localghost]

For such tasks it is suggestive to use packages like enumitem which allows customization of lists in many ways.


Thorsten

[Despot Despondency]

Cool, managed to work it out using that package.

Thanks a lot.

[localghost]

Nice to hear. But it would be very friendly if you post the complete solution here in form of a minimal example. Finally you are not writing here only for yourself, but also for others with the same problem.