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Question

The following image is the output from the following block of code:

\begin{itemize}
    \item In the document, put: \textbackslash lipsum[1-2] \\
        [1-2] means generate paragraph from 1 to 2.
\end{itemize}

However, what I intend to produce is something that looks like:

•In the document, put:\lipsum[1-2]
 [1-2] means generate paragraph from 1 to 2

I'm confused of what went wrong and don't know how to fix it.

don't ignore error messages! use \\ \relax so the [1... isn't taken as the optional \\[5pt] length argument (and generate an error about missing length) — David Carlisle, Jun 04 '21 at 20:32

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '21 at 02:02

Building on David's comment.
You can use \\{}.
For more background info see here (regarding \\{}) and here (regarding \\[5mm]).

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
    \item In the document, put: \textbackslash lipsum[1-2] \{}
        [1-2] means generate paragraph from 1 to 2.
    \item In the document, put: \textbackslash lipsum[1-2] \[5mm] % You can also try "0mm" :)
        [1-2] means generate paragraph from 1 to 2.
\end{itemize}
\end{document}

Line break in a list

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