Enumitem settings have no effect on enumerate environment

Question

I've read this question: Vertical space in lists but neither solution offered there works for me. When I add this:

\usepackage{enumitem}
\setitemize{itemsep=-10pt,parsep=-10pt,topsep=-10pt,partopsep=-10pt}

Or any combination of the above lots of different things get affected, but it makes absolutely no difference to how enumerate environments are rendered.

However, when I add \setlength\itemsep{-10pt} to the enumerate environment, then it does change the itemsep length.

Unfortunately, the LaTeX code is generated, and I cannot alter the generator to insert the setlength command. Is there any other way to deal with this problem? (Renaming environment isn't also an option for the same reason).

Answer 1

The exact syntax, as documented by enumitem, should be

usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist[enumerate]{itemsep=-10pt,parsep=-10pt,topsep=-10pt,partopsep=-10pt}

or, for specific list levels, something like

\setlist[enumerate,2]{itemsep=-10pt,parsep=-10pt,topsep=-10pt,partopsep=-10pt}

for an enumerate list of level 2.