Customizing enumerations and itemizations

Question

Is there a guide out there on how to customize the enumerate and itemize instances in my code? (I'm using the Memoir class in LaTeX for Windows, and I have the enumitem package included.) I want to mess with the margins and spacings to make my lists look a little less "LaTeX-default"...

Answer 1

This is some of the default examples included in the enumitem package documentation (section 13 Samples on p 13). In particular, they deal with some of the spacing/margin modifications:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}% http://ctan.org/pkg/enumitem
\newcommand{\mylist}[1]{%
  En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme,
  no ha mucho tiempo que viv\'{\i}a un hidalgo de los de
  \begin{enumerate}[noitemsep,#1]
    \item lanza en astillero,
    \item adarna antigua,
    \item roc\'{\i}n flaco, y
    \item galgo corredor.
  \end{enumerate}
  Una olla de algo m\'{a}s vaca que carnero, salpic\'{o}n las m\'{a}s
  noches, duelos y quebrantos los s\'{a}bados\ldots
}
\begin{document}
\mylist{labelindent=\parindent,leftmargin=*} \par\medskip\hrule\medskip
\mylist{leftmargin=*} \par\medskip\hrule\medskip % labelindent=0pt by default
\mylist{leftmargin=\parindent} \par\medskip\hrule\medskip
\mylist{labelindent=\parindent, leftmargin=*, label=\Roman*., widest=IV, align=left} \par\medskip\hrule\medskip
\mylist{label=\fbox{\arabic*}}
\end{document}

Also see Good way to make \textcircled numbers? for a way to use enumitem to encircle the enumeration using tikz/pgf. Finally, searching for questions about enumitem leads to many requests regarding "messing around with margins and spacing."