I had used the following:

#+LATEX_HEADER:\addtolength{\itemsep}{-4pt}

and, previously:

#+LATEX_HEADER:\setlength{\itemsep}{1pt}

Neither of them makes a difference.


Alan




On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>