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I am in the process of transitioning from using the older {paralist} package to the {enumitem} package and this question on Suggestions for transitioning from paralist to enumitem package suggested to use the align=left option. However, this is results in text overlapping. If I remove the setting, then the default {enumitem} package results in text being overwritten. Not sure how to fix this...

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{paralist}
\usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}
%\setlist{align=left}

\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{showframe}

\usepackage{amsmath}

\begin{document}

\begin{itemize}[\textbf{Given:}]
    \item $f(x) = \sqrt{x}$  

    $g(x) = \sqrt[3]{1 - x}$
\end{itemize}

\end{document}

This produces correct results with {parlist} package. Using the defaults of {enumitem}, shifts text into margin (with TeXLive2012 as of Oct 27, 2012):

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and with the align=left, the text overlaps.

Or is there a better way for me to achieve the results that {paralist} produces.

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Peter Grill
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    It's a bug, to be fixed very soon. Anyway, when the list is properly setup (as Gonzalo shows below), this shouldn't be a problem. – Javier Bezos Jun 27 '11 at 09:41
  • @JavierBezos: FYI, the MWE given here produces the same results with TeXLive2023. Perhaps it was decided that this was not a bug. – Peter Grill Jun 30 '23 at 06:24

1 Answers1

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You can use leftmargin=*:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}
\setlist{leftmargin=*}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{showframe}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\begin{document}

\begin{itemize}[\textbf{Given:}]
    \item $f(x) = \sqrt{x}$  

    $g(x) = \sqrt[3]{1 - x}$
\end{itemize}

\end{document}

The image only shows the relevant part:

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