I can see now that the LaTeX source for my outline is not in list form, but in sections.   When I reformat to use list notation in org, the following do not change anything in the pdf that is output.  Interestingly, when I export LaTeX into a buffer latex then complains about too many nested levels, while the pdf is exported ok.

Perhaps there is another length parameter I can change to make the outlines based on sectioning more compact.


Alan 

"Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value."
  --- Buckminster Fuller



On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:
I need to print outlines in a more compact form than LaTeX lists ordinarily provide.  I often have used the paralist package, although it conflicts with some other packages.  How can I alter the line spacing for the lists directly, for export?

I found this suggestion, and I was going to use #+LATEX_HEADER:, but then it occured to me that I don't have a way to specifiy that "my_enumerate" would be used instead of "enumerate".

This is the code I found on line:

%
% this makes list spacing much better.
%
\newenvironment{my_enumerate}{
\begin{enumerate}
  \setlength{\itemsep}{1pt}
  \setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
  \setlength{\parsep}{0pt}}{\end{enumerate}



}
Thank you for any suggestions.


Alan Davis

"Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value."
  --- Buckminster Fuller