[WARNING - NOT VIRUS SCANNED] Re: [OS X TeX] Re: Eliminate extra vertical space in enumerate? (Gary L. Gray)

[Ross Moore]

Hi all,

On 07/05/2012, at 9:38 AM, Gary L. Gray wrote:

> On May 6, 2012, at 6:52 PM, Ross Moore wrote:
> 

>> However, it clashes with  \usepackage{enumerate}  which also
>> provides an optional argument.
>> You certainly cannot use the two together. 
>> Besides, having to edit all your enumerate environments to add the
>> extra option is a hassle, assuming Gary is reusing a lot of stuff
>> already coded.
>> 


> Ross,
> 
> That does look interesting. Note that enumitem does have an option that makes it backward compatible with the feature of enumerate that we use. That is, one can load enumitem with the shortlabels option as:
> 
> \usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}
> 
> Does this change your suggestion?

The important thing is to not have to go through and look
at (and edit) the options to every {enumerate} environment.


OK; this works too, without affecting other {enumerate} lists
that may be within the document.

\framebox{%
\parbox{\textwidth}{\setenumerate[1]{topsep=0pt}%
\begin{enumerate}[(a)]
\item
First item.
\item
Second item.
\item
Third item.
\end{enumerate}%
}}

or the way you really want it, I'd guess, is something like:

\usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}
\newcommand{\framedsolution}[1]{%
 \framebox{\parbox{\textwidth}{%
  \setenumerate[1]{topsep=0pt}%  can add other settings here
  #1}}%
}


using it as:

\framedsolution{%
\begin{enumerate}[(a)]
\item
First item.
\item
Second item.
\item
Third item.
\end{enumerate}%
}


Or as an environment:

\newenvironment{framesolution}%
 {\framebox\bgroup\parbox{\textwidth}\bgroup
   \setenumerate[1]{topsep=0pt}%  can add other settings here
 }%
 {\egroup\egroup}

using it as:

\begin{framesolution}
\begin{enumerate}[(a)]
\item
First item.
\item
Second item.
\item
Third item.
\end{enumerate}%
\end{framesolution}

> 
> -- 
> All the best,
> Gary


Hope this helps,

	Ross

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