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I use list environments for short text. In myitem environment I define new space between items. How I can reduce vertical space before first item? This space is bigger than between paragraphs.

 \documentclass[12pt]{article}
 \usepackage{lipsum}

 \newenvironment{myitem}{\begin{itemize}
    \setlength{\leftmargin}{-5.0cm}
    \setlength{\itemindent}{0.0cm}
    \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}
     \setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
     \setlength{\parsep}{0pt}}     
     {\end{itemize}}

 \begin{document}
 \lipsum[1]
 \lipsum[2]
 \begin{myitem}
 \item lorem ipsum dolor  lorem ipsum dolor  lorem ipsum dolor  lorem ipsum dolor lorem ipsum dolor lorem ipsum dolor 
 \item lorem ipsum dolor
 \item lorem ipsum dolor
 \item lorem ipsum dolor
 \end{myitem}
  \lipsum[3]
 \end{document}

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    There's always \vspace{negative length}...
    – Steven B. Segletes
    Jun 6, 2014 at 9:46
  • 1
    \usepackage{enumitem}...\begin{itemize}[nosep]...
    – Andrew Swann
    Jun 6, 2014 at 9:54

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This is not easy to do directly and the best and simplest interface is the package enumitem. Here you can set-up mylist (I prefer that name to myitem) as a copy of itemize with maximum list depth 1, bullet labels, a specified leftmargin and no vertical spacing via:

\newlist{mylist}{itemize}{1}
\setlist[mylist]{label=\textbullet,leftmargin=1cm,nosep}

Sample output

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum,enumitem}

\newlist{mylist}{itemize}{1}
\setlist[mylist]{label=\textbullet,leftmargin=1cm,nosep}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\lipsum[2]
\begin{mylist}
\item lorem ipsum dolor lorem ipsum dolor lorem ipsum dolor lorem
  ipsum dolor lorem ipsum dolor lorem ipsum dolor
\item lorem ipsum dolor
\item lorem ipsum dolor
\item lorem ipsum dolor
\end{mylist}
\lipsum[3]

\end{document}
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  • I add enumitem in preambula and definition of mylist. But when I compile my MWE, i receive error: Package keyval Error: nosep undefined \item
    – Ama
    Jun 6, 2014 at 10:43
  • Make sure you have an up-to-date version of enumitem - this feature was introduced in version 3.4 - the current version is 3.5.2 or so.
    – Andrew Swann
    Jun 6, 2014 at 13:46

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