How to have curly bracket spanning items of Itemize

Question

We already know how to have a curly bracket spanning multiple non-math lines of text:

• Cf. Curly brackets spanning multiple lines (no math env) | Only 1 curly bracket, at 1 side

What I wonder now is: how to do the same with:

\begin{itemize}
\item Item 1
\item Item 2
\item Item 3
\end{itemize} 

How to have a curly bracket spanning over such Items, within an Itemize-environment?

Answer 1

It's not too hard to adapt the answer you already found :)

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
$\left\{
\begin{tabular}{p{.8\textwidth}}
\begin{itemize}
\item Second line 
\item Third line, which is quite long and seemingly tedious in the extreme
\item Fourth line, which isn't as long as the third 
\end{itemize}
\end{tabular}
\right.$
\end{document}

The spacing could use some work but I'm too lazy.

Answer 2

Following Werner's comment, which links to:

• User Cmhuges' answer to the question Adding a large brace next to a body of text

I end up with the following, which (when one would like a left-curly brace) however results in the left brace being oriented falsely (it should be flipped horizontally).

A correct way for the right curly brace can be found in the mentioned User Cmhuges' answer.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[many]{tcolorbox}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathreplacing}

\newtcolorbox{leftbrace}{%
    enhanced jigsaw, 
    breakable, % allow page breaks
    frame hidden, % hide the default frame
    overlay={%
        \draw [
            decoration={brace,amplitude=0.5em},
            decorate,
            ultra thick,
        ]
        % right line
        (frame.north west)--(frame.south west);
    },
    % paragraph skips obeyed within tcolorbox
    parbox=false,
}

\begin{document}

\begin{leftbrace}
\begin{itemize}
\item Second line 
\item Third line, which is quite long and seemingly tedious in the extreme
\item Fourth line, which isn't as long as the third 
\end{itemize}
\end{leftbrace}

\end{document}

Answer 3

I do not have the reputation points to comment back to you @Anas A. Ibrahim, but to have a horizontal brace pointing downward you would change the line under the "%right line" comment to: (frame.south west)--(frame.south east). If you want the horizontal brace to point upward, change that same line to: (frame.north west)--(frame.north east). Hope that helps!

Answer 4

In addition to @Christina Cole's solution, another way to "flip" the brace is to use the mirror option, i.e., replace decoration={brace, amplitude=0.5em} with decoration={brace, amplitude=0.5em, mirror}.

source: How can I flip the direction of curly braces in TikZ?