Time for action – shrinking our tutorial

We shall remove the white space around the list items and before and after the whole list as well:

1. In the previous example, load the package paralist and replace enumerate with compactenum and itemize with compactitem:

   \documentclass{article}
   \usepackage{paralist}
   \begin{document}
   \begin{compactenum}
     \item State the paper size by an option to the document class
     \item Determine the margin dimensions using one of these packages:
     \begin{compactitem}
       \item geometry
       \item typearea
     \end{compactitem}
     \item Customize header and footer by one of these packages:
     \begin{compactitem}
       \item fancyhdr
       \item scrpage2
     \end{compactitem}
     \item Adjust the line spacing for the whole document
     \begin{compactitem}
       \item by using the setspace package 
       \item or by the command \linespread{factor}
     \end{compactitem}
   \end{compactenum}
   \end{document}

2. Typeset and compare the spacing:

   

3. Now extend the highlighted list item for setspace as follows...