[OS X TeX] Question: adjusting spacing in the enumerate environment

Richard Seguin riseguin at earthlink.net
Mon Mar 21 05:09:57 CET 2005


On Mar 20, 2005, at 9:13 PM, Herb Schulz wrote:

> On 3/20/05 9:07 PM, "Richard Seguin" <riseguin at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Claus,
>>
>> The \csepb=0.5\medskip statement produces the error message:
>>
>> ! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).
>> <to be read again>
>>       \protect
>> 1.79 \csepb=0.5\medskip
>>
>> \csepb=2.5pt does compile correctly
>>
>> At any rate, this doesn't seem to have any effect on the space above
>> the first item.
>>
>> Richard Séguin
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> Try \csepb=0.5\medskipamount since \medskip is a command, not a 
> dimension.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>

That also works. However, I'm still getting minimal to no effect on the 
space above the first item. Maybe Bruno is correct about this approach 
being doomed.

Richard

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