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Consider the following example.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{enumitem}

% New line after \item (http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/29518/15874)
\makeatletter
\def\myitem{%
  \@ifnextchar[ \@myitem{\@noitemargtrue\@myitem[\@itemlabel]}}
  \def\@myitem[#1]{\item[#1]\mbox{}\\}
\makeatother
% Exercise
\setlist[enumerate,1]{
  wide = 0\parindent,
  listparindent = 0pt,
  label = \textbf{Exercise~\arabic*}
}
% Question
\setlist[enumerate,2]{
  wide = 0\parindent,
  listparindent = 0pt,
  label = \textbf{\alph*)}
}

\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}
\myitem
  \begin{enumerate}
    \item A
    \item B
  \end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

output

How do I

  • remove the blank space after Exercise?
  • get rid of the Underfull \hbox warning (do to the blank line after Exercise)? P.S. I don't want any text between Exercise and a).
Svend Tveskæg
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  • I think, the \\ \ screws the spacing up ;-) –  Jun 09 '15 at 19:55
  • @ChristianHupfer That was too 'easy'; I should have figured that out myself. :) Thanks. – Svend Tveskæg Jun 09 '15 at 20:11
  • @SvendTveskæg If you want to start from a new line (which is what \mbox{}\\ achieves) you can use enumitem keys for the occasion, see 3.7 Description styles in the documentation. – Manuel Jun 09 '15 at 20:35
  • @Manuel I might (read: probably) miss something obvious but I can't figure out which options to use. I think that I've tried all of them without succes. If I can make you give an answer with this behaviour, I will very much appreciate it. – Svend Tveskæg Jun 09 '15 at 20:41
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    @SvendTveskæg I slipped, probably. That only works for description-like environments, and you are using enumerate. – Manuel Jun 09 '15 at 21:33
  • @SvendTveskæg: I wondered why you did not figure that yourself, but I thought that strange code for myitem stuff is really important –  Jun 10 '15 at 12:06

1 Answers1

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In the following line

\def\@myitem[#1]{\item[#1]\mbox{}\\}

you have \\ which creates another line. Remove it to remove the blank space. If you want to further reduce the space you can add a negative vertical space. Here's the two versions.

Output

Added \vspace{-1ex}

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Empty

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Code

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{enumitem}

% New line after \item (http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/29518/15874)
\makeatletter
\def\myitem{%
  \@ifnextchar[ \@myitem{\@noitemargtrue\@myitem[\@itemlabel]}}
  \def\@myitem[#1]{\item[#1]\mbox{}\vspace{-1ex}}
\makeatother
% Exercise
\setlist[enumerate,1]{
  wide = 0\parindent,
  listparindent = 0pt,
  label = \textbf{Exercise~\arabic*},
  %partopsep=-40ex
}
% Question
\setlist[enumerate,2]{
  wide = 0\parindent,
  listparindent = 0pt,
  label = \textbf{\alph*)}
}

\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}
\myitem
  \begin{enumerate}
    \item A
    \item B
  \end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}
Alenanno
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