How can I reduce the space between lines in a list?

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I would like to personalize my list, to make it more compact. In part I managed, in fact I was able to reduce the space between the item but the problem I have now is that when in the same item the sentence is indented the space is too much space between the lines, I had to put the spacing of my whole document set at 1.5 (\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5}) but in the list I would like it to be 1 ... Specifically, in the picture below, in the second item, I would like to reduce the space between the first and second line

Below is my code

begin{itemize}[topsep=0pt,itemsep=-2ex]
        \item exterior orientation file (EO): it describes the position of the camera when the  images are acquired;
        \item interior orientation file (IO): it describes the internal geometry of a camera, i.e., the camera and distortion parameters;
\end{itemize}

Thanks!

It looks like you explicitely increased the line spacing (which I would deem bad typography). This line spacing also applies to lists, of course. While it can easily be changed, I would consider changing the line spacing mid document absolutely awful typography. To really let us help you, please make your code snipped a minimal working example (MWE), i.e. something that anyone can run without any changes for testing. — schtandard, May 28 '21 at 19:22

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 29 '21 at 11:47

Don't manipulate the low-level command \baselinestretch directly. I suggest you load the setspace package and issue the instruction \setstretch{1.5} instead. Next, load the etoolbox package and issue the instruction

\AtBeginEnvironment{itemize}{\par\medskip\setstretch{1.0}}

in the preamble.

A full MWE (minimum working example):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem,setspace,lipsum,etoolbox}
\setstretch{1.5}
\AtBeginEnvironment{itemize}{\par\medskip\setstretch{1.0}}
\frenchspacing % optional
\begin{document}
\lipsum[2][1-5]
\begin{itemize}[nosep]
  \item \lipsum[1][1-4]
  \item \lipsum[1][5-8]
\end{itemize}
\lipsum[2][1-5]
\end{document}

How can I reduce the space between lines in a list?

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