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Anybody knows how I can remove the spacing before my itemized list?
\begin{document}
{\bf main text }\hfill{year}\\
{title}\\
\renewcommand\labelitemii{$\square$}
\begin{itemize}
\setlength{\itemsep}{0.05em}
\item[$\square$] item 1
\item[$\square$] item 2
\item[$\square$] item 3
\item[$\square$] item 4\\
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
Never use \\ at the end of a paragraph or before a display constrict such as a list or equation, TeX will warn about such use with a warning about badness 10000 (it's maximum measure of bad typesetting) and produce a spurious extra line of the paragraph which looks like vertical space but is not space and does not combine with vertical space in a useful way.
itemize/enumerate? or Vertical space in lists. – Werner Jun 24 '19 at 17:21\\before the list? – David Carlisle Jun 24 '19 at 18:03\bfyou might want to take a look at: “Correct” way to bold/italicize text? – leandriis Jun 24 '19 at 20:54