spacing between items in itemize or enumerate environments (lists)
LaTeX
In LaTeX Beamer, I wanted to adjust the spacing between items in an itemize
environment. This post shows how to do it for each individual itemize
environment:
\begin{itemize}\addtolength{\itemsep}{-0.5\baselineskip}
\item one
\item two
\end{itemize}
To do it globally, one can use the enumitem
environment per this post; one can actually change lots of feature using enumitem
. However, it does not work with LaTeX Beamer since Beamer defines itemize
in its frame
environment. To change itemsep
globally, this post suggests the following in the document's preamble:
documentclass{beamer}
\newlength{\wideitemsep}
\setlength{\wideitemsep}{\itemsep}
\addtolength{\wideitemsep}{100pt}
\let\olditem\item
\renewcommand{\item}{\setlength{\itemsep}{\wideitemsep}\olditem}