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martman
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removing indent from list?

Post by 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}
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frabjous
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removing indent from list?

Post by frabjous »

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

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Code, edit and compile here:
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*]
\item a
\item b
\item c
\item d
\item e
\item f
\end{itemize}
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See the enumitem package documentation for more information and more options.
martman
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Re: removing indent from list?

Post by 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
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frabjous
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Re: removing indent from list?

Post by 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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removing indent from list?

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Code, edit and compile here:
\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}
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