LaTeX VERY compact itemize

Question

I am trying to build a very compact itemize with LaTeX, because I want to fit it in a table without whitespace everywhere.

What I need:

• No whitespace before list
• No whitespace after list
• No whitespace between lines
• Less indent before the bulletpoints

I have tried many packages (paralist, mdwlist, enumitem) but non of them can fully do it.

I tried it myself (with the help of paralist) and could get rid of everything except the whitespace after the list. This is my current solution:

\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\compress}{\@minipagetrue}
\makeatother

\newenvironment{ilist}%
  {
    %from parlist package, reduces indent before bulletpoints
    \setdefaultleftmargin{1em}{1em}{}{}{}{} 
    \compress %places itemize into minipage, removing whitespace before
    \begin{itemize}%
    \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}%
    \setlength{\topsep}{0pt} 
    \setlength{\partopsep}{0pt}
    \setlength{\parsep}{0pt}
    \setlength{\parskip}{0pt}}%
  {\end{itemize}}

However, I am unable to get rid of the space after the list. I can do it with a negative vspace but this is:

1. Ugly
2. Does not work for tables: The rule after the row in which the list is will still be one line below.

Can anyone tell me how to do it? I have googled so much, but it somehow seems that I am the first human that ever tried to insert an itemize into a table :D

Answer 1

To change these settings globally

\usepackage{enumitem}
\setitemize{noitemsep,topsep=0pt,parsep=0pt,partopsep=0pt}

(And you can use the \setenumerate, \setdescription or \setlist commands for other types of lists)

Or for just a single list

\usepackage{enumitem}
...
\begin{itemize}[noitemsep,topsep=0pt,parsep=0pt,partopsep=0pt]
\item item 1
\item item 2
\item item 3
\end{itemize}

Answer 2

The accepted answer is not up to date as mentioned in the comments. This is what I used to get a compact list:

\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist{topsep=0pt, leftmargin=*}

Then use \begin{itemize} as usual to start a list.

Answer 3

Try the enumitem and shortlst packages.

Answer 4

This solution was provided in a comment by @damien-pollet but every time I come back here to find it again, I always have a hard time finding it because it is a comment, so I am putting it as answer for the benefit of my future-self who will be looking for this answer again.

The compactitem environment of the paralist package works wonders:

\usepackage{paralist}
...
\begin{compactitem}
\item Item 1
\item Item 2
\end{compactitem}

Answer 5

You get the desired layout with the savetrees package (caveat: this will also compactify the rest of your document)

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{savetrees}

\begin{document}
text
\begin{itemize}
\item No whitespace before list
\item No whitespace after list
\item No whitespace between lines
\item Less indent before the bulletpoints
\end{itemize}
text
\end{document}

Answer 6

In the preamble:

\newcommand{\bbb}[1]{\indent$\bullet$ #1\\}

In the document:

\bbb{hello world}