When you itemize items you usually have the entire list indented. This is expected when you have a title or description of what you are listing. I want to itemize but not have the natural indent. I need to move all of the bullet points over towards the the leftmost edge of the margin like all other text you would enter. How can I do this?
Any customization of a list environment, such as itemize, enumerate, etc, is most elegantly handled by the enumitem package.
You can use leftmargin=* locally,
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*]
\item one
\item two
\item three
\end{itemize}
or else you use
\setlist[itemize]{leftmargin=*}
in your preamble to make the change global.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[showframe=true]{geometry}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item one
\item two
\item three
\end{itemize}
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*]
\item one
\item two
\item three
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
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2Thanks for the solution! Just adding reference, this also works for the
enumerateenvironment (: – Rubens Apr 15 '13 at 2:40 -
1When I try this, it works, however, it removes the space between the item and the bullet point: *item when I'm really looking for... * item – jc_os Dec 12 '13 at 1:59
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Unfortunately
leftmargin=*doesn't work well if the bullet points are removed throughlabel={}– there is still some additional space left. In this case,leftmargin=0ptseems to ensure that the items perfectly align with the boundary on the left. – balu Mar 8 at 20:38
\setlength{\itemindent}{-2em}was quite useful, and doesn't require loading another package. – kcrisman Sep 26 '19 at 15:31