LaTeX Beginners Guide

Time for action – shrinking our tutorial

We shall remove the white space around the list items and before and after the whole list as well:

1. In the previous example, load the package paralist and replace enumerate with compactenum and itemize with compactitem:

   \documentclass{article} \usepackage{paralist} \begin{document} \begin{compactenum} \item State the paper size by an option to the document class \item Determine the margin dimensions using one of these packages: \begin{compactitem} \item geometry \item typearea \end{compactitem} \item Customize header and footer by one of these packages: \begin{compactitem} \item fancyhdr \item scrpage2 \end{compactitem} \item Adjust the line spacing for the whole document \begin{compactitem} \item by using ...