[texhax] How to Not indent item lists

Lars Madsen daleif at imf.au.dk
Fri May 19 11:08:46 CEST 2006


Dieter Meinert :

> Hi all,
> Following (LaTeX?) problem:
>   I need an itemize (enum, desc...) environment where the label is
> flush left to
>   the textmargin, but I seem to be unable to find the correct length of
> \if...
>   The only success I had up to now was redefining the itemize
> environment from
>   latex.ltx as shown below, which resulted in a gross overreaction.
>   Redefining \itemindent, \listindent,\listparindent
>   \parindent and lots of other lengths didn't show any result at all.
>
>   Certainly there must be an easier way nowadays.
>

install the enumitem package if you don't already have it on your system. 
It will enamble to to configure enumerate, itemize and description.


/daleif

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