[comp.text.tex] Item separation in itemize

blerner@empire.cs.umass.edu (Barbara Lerner) (12/11/90)

I want to change the separation between list elements in an itemize
environment in LaTex, but I don't know how.  I have tried:

\begin{itemize}{\itemsep 2in}
  ...
\end{itemize}

This doesn't change the separation distance at all.  I would
appreciate any advice on how to do this.

Thanks in advance,
Barbara Lerner (blerner@cs.umass.edu)

raichle@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Bernd Raichle) (12/11/90)

> I want to change the separation between list elements in an itemize
> environment in LaTex, but I don't know how.  I have tried:
>
> \begin{itemize}{\itemsep 2in}
>   ...
> \end{itemize}
>
> This doesn't change the separation distance at all.  [...]

The itemize-environment has no(!) arguments.
So the assignment \itemsep=2in is grouped by the parenthesis...
and at the end of the group (denoted by the right } after 2in) the
old value of \itemsep is restored.


 \begin{itemize}\itemsep 2in
   ...
 \end{itemize}

works.

-bernd
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