How to change the space between the itemize "items" in LaTeX?

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How to change the space between the itemize "items" in LaTeX so that I can continue to use the "itemize" and "item" tag without needing to redefine any new tags?

This question contains a solution much more elegant than those listed in the duplicate. — deps_stats, Apr 11 '18 at 03:55
Argh, another instance of somebody erroneously closing a question. The "original" question asks how to do this globally, but this question asks how to do it at all. — jvriesem, Feb 14 '22 at 14:53
Funny how the closed questions are usually the most useful ones .. — FluidMechanics Potential Flows, Oct 20 '23 at 09:37

score 525 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 19 '14 at 21:56

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\itemsep is the length you'll want to change.

As an example:

\begin{itemize}
  \setlength\itemsep{1em}
  \item one
  \item two
  \item three
\end{itemize}

edited Sep 19 '14 at 21:56

Sean Allred

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answered Mar 01 '11 at 08:33

PaulRein

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You use it like this: \begin{itemize} \itemsep0em \item one \item two \item three \end{itemize} – meep.meep Mar 01 '11 at 08:42
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Or, you change it with \setlength or \addtolength. – PaulRein Mar 01 '11 at 08:44
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Don't do that. Just use the enumitem package as described in the answer this question is a duplicate of. – TH. Mar 01 '11 at 10:42
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How would I use \setlength to affect whole document? – 71GA Sep 11 '15 at 17:19
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@71GA With the enumitem package, see here for instance: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4974583/1216878 – contradictioned Apr 06 '17 at 09:33
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Please note that you can also use negative values \setlength\itemsep{-0.5em} – Martin Thoma Jan 03 '18 at 11:06
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@TH. enumitem won't work in the beamer environment. – FooBar Nov 26 '18 at 11:30
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@71GA @FooBar Redefine itemize. \let\olditemize=\itemize \let\endolditemize=\enditemize \renewenvironment{itemize}{\olditemize \itemsep0em}{\endolditemize} – chan1142 Dec 20 '18 at 13:58
@MartinThoma Instead of \setlength\itemsep{-0.5em}, is there a way to specify a clearpage or newpage for each item to start on a new clear page? – Dilpreet Kaur Feb 06 '22 at 08:59
@71GA Define a new command as \newcommand{\bi}{\begin{itemize}\setlength{\itemsep}{1em}} – statwoman Nov 30 '22 at 16:02
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@chan1142 I think your solution can even be simplified to \let\olditemize\itemize \renewcommand{\itemize}{\olditemize\itemsep0pt} -- i.e. since \begin{itemize} uses \itemize internally (more info here). – jessexknight Aug 18 '23 at 12:32

How to change the space between the itemize "items" in LaTeX?

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