Text Formatting ⇒ Adjust spacing between item and text in itemize environment?

[KALogic]

I wish to adjust the amount of horizontal spacing between the item label and the item text in the itemize environment, and further, keep the item label left aligned. Here's an example code:

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\begin{itemize}[align=left]
\item[\textrm{[1]}] Let z1 and z2 be complex numbers, where z2 is not equal to zero. Then ... 
\end{itemize}

The result is, to my taste, to much spacing between the text "Let z1 and z2 ..." and the item label "[1]"

[Ijon Tichy]

If you are using enumitem you can also change the leftmargin, the labelwidth and/or the labelsep.

BTW: It seems this should be a enumerated list. If this is true, I would recommend enumerate with automatic numeration instead if itemize.

If this answer is not enough so solve your problem, please show a minimal working example instead of a code snippet.

[KALogic]

If you are using enumitem you can also change the leftmargin, the labelwidth and/or the labelsep.

BTW: It seems this should be a enumerated list. If this is true, I would recommend enumerate with automatic numeration instead if itemize.

If this answer is not enough so solve your problem, please show a minimal working example instead of a code snippet.

Thanks Ijon!

Yes, but I want to keep the enumeration in brackets, like this [1] or [23], and sometimes I use other labels like [*] or [1'']. And if I switch to the enumerate environment instead of itemize (but still use the [align=left] option), the visual result is identical.

Yes, I use the enumitem package.

Here's a minimal working example

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\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}
\usepackage{setspace}
\setstretch{1.1}

\usepackage[swedish]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage{amsmath, amsthm, amssymb}
\usepackage[all]{xy}

\usepackage{enumitem}

%\setitemize{align=left}  I don't always wish to do this adjustment globally in my documents

\newcounter{propnr}
\addtocounter{propnr}{0}

\begin{document}

\begin{itemize}[align=left]
\item[\textbf{[\stepcounter{propnr}\arabic{propnr}]}] \emph{Lorem ipsum ... thus ... }
\end{itemize}

\end{document}

[Ijon Tichy]

enumitem also provides attributes to modify the formatting of the number of an enumeration. And as I already told, there are attributes like leftmargin, labelwidth and labelsep to modify the indent and alignment of label and item text. Figure 1 in the manual is very useful to understand these attributes. And automatic values like * and ! are also useful and explained in the manual.

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
     
\usepackage{enumitem}
     
\usepackage{mwe,showframe}% only for demonstration purpose
\begin{document}
     
\begin{enumerate}[align=left,label=\textbf{[\arabic{*}]},leftmargin=0pt,labelwidth=!,labelsep=.5em]
\item \emph{\blindtext}
\end{enumerate}

\begin{enumerate}[label=\textbf{[\arabic{*}]},leftmargin=1.5em,labelsep=*]
\item \emph{\blindtext}
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

[KALogic]

Thanks Ijon! Perfect, that should do it!