Re: itemize-environment and indention

[Katrin Pietzsch]

Am Samstag, 09.08.03 um 21:14 Uhr schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller:

Katrin Pietzsch wrote:
in one chapter I only want to use the itemize-environment in
combination with some explanatory tables and figures. By default this
environtment offsets everything from the left pagemargin. How can I
prevent this, 'cause I want the labels to be aligned with figures and
tabels that start at the left page margin?
You have to redefine the itemize environment (or define a new 
myitemize if you
still need the default one). Something like this (this does only use 
the
level1 items):

\renewenvironment{itemize}{%
  \begin{list}{\labelitemi}{%
    \settowidth{\labelwidth}{\labelitemi}%
    \setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth}%
    \addtolength{\leftmargin}{\labelsep}%
  }%
}{\end{list}}
Sorry to bother you again. I tried this, but lyx wasn't happy with it 
and produced a whole lot of errors, mainly complaining

"Illegal unit measure (pt inserted)
\begin{itemize}
...."
"Missing number, treated as zero
\begin{itemize}
...."
and

"Undefined control sequence
\begin{itemize}
..."
I'm not very familiar with defining new environments, commands etc. and 
error messages. I suppose, I didn't adjust it to my document properly, 
but I don't know how to figure out, what i need to do. One idea was  to 
use

\begin{itemize}{\labelitemi}....
...
}{\end{itemize}}
in the above suggestion ('cause i want to use the itemize-environment 
not the list). I did this and got the following error:

"TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [grouping levels = 255].
  \begin{itemize}
If you really absolutely need mor capacity, you can ask the wizard to 
enlarge me."

That sounds even worse :(. What do I have to consider when defining a 
new environment? Do I have to specify a certain lenth somewhere?

Thanks for your help,
Katrin