When I make a list, either with "enumerate" or "itemize" I get the text as follows:
But I would like to eliminate or reduce the horizontal distance that it occupies:
And get something like this:
An example of the code is
\documentclass[10pt, letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\begin{document}
Some text here
\begin{enumerate}
\item a
\item b
\item c
\end{enumerate}
Some more text
\end{document}
enumerate
is usually established by the document class you are using, but there are other methods. since we don't know what you are doing now, we can't give a reliable answer. please provide a small. compilable example that demonstrates what how you obtained the result you show at the top of your question.