How do I remove the extra space added before and after sub-bullets in a quarto PDF document? [Apparently I need more text before stackoverflow will allow me to post this question. But my question is pretty straight-forward. I just want to get rid of the ugly and confusing white space that's added into the middle of my list.]

---
title: "test list"
format: pdf
---

1. First
2. Second
    + sub 1
3. Third

How do I remove the extra space added before and after sub-bullets in a quarto PDF document? [Apparently I need more text before stackoverflow will allow me to post this question. But my question is pretty straight-forward. I just want to get rid of the ugly and confusing white space that's added into the middle of my list.]

---
title: "test list"
format: pdf
---

1. First
2. Second
    + sub 1
3. Third

• quarto

• There's a discussion of list item spacing here, but adding in this suggested css code chunk doesn't make any difference on the spacing: {css, echo = FALSE} <style> li > p:has(+ul) { margin-bottom: 0; } </style> – filups21 Commented Jan 17 at 15:42

1 Answer 1

since you render your quarto with LaTeX to PDF, we can add a cutom header to overwrite the enumerate (1.,2.,3.,...) and itemize (bulletpoints) like this:

---
title: "test list"
format: 
  pdf:
    include-in-header:
      text: |
        \usepackage{enumitem}
        \setlist[itemize]{topsep=0pt,itemsep=0pt,partopsep=0pt,parsep=0pt}
        \setlist[enumerate]{topsep=0pt,itemsep=0pt,partopsep=0pt,parsep=0pt}
---

1. First
2. Second
    + sub 1
3. Third