LaTeX beamer way to change the bullet indentation

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I ve checked the Beamer Class manual  PDF file    I can t figure out how to change the indentation bullet assigns to  itemize    This is kind of important  as I m using 2 column slides  and I don t want beamer to steal too much horizontal space

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I use the package enumitem  You may then set such margins when you declare your lists  enumerate  description  itemize     begin itemize  leftmargin 0cm       item Foo      item Bar  end itemize    Naturally  the package provides lots of other nice customizations for lists  use  label   to change the bullet  use  itemsep   to change the spacing between items  etc

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Beamer just delegates responsibility for managing layout of itemize environments back to the base LaTeX packages  so there s nothing funky you need to do in Beamer itself to alter the apperaance   layout of your lists   Since Beamer redefines itemize  item  etc   the fully proper way to manipulate things like indentation is to redefine the Beamer templates   I get the impression that you re not looking to go that far  but if that s not the case  let me know and I ll elaborate   There are at least three ways of accomplishing your goal from within your document  without mussing about with Beamer templates   With itemize  In the following code snippet  you can change the value of  itemindent from 0em to whatever you please  including negative values   0em is the default item indentation   The advantage of this method is that the list is styled normally   The disadvantage is that Beamer s redefinition of itemize and  item means that the number of paramters that can be manipulated to change the list layout is limited   It can be very hard to get the spacing right with multi-line items    begin itemize     setlength  itemindent  0em     item This is a normally-indented item   end itemize    With list  In the following code snippet  the second parameter to  list is the bullet to use  and the third parameter is a list of layout parameters to change   The  leftmargin parameter adjusts the indentation of the entire list item and all of its rows   itemindent alters the indentation of subsequent lines   The advantage of this method is that you have all of the flexibility of lists in non-Beamer LaTeX   The disadvantage is that you have to setup the bullet style  and other visual elements  manually  or identify the right command for the template you re using    Note that if you leave the second argument empty  no bullet will be displayed and you ll save some horizontal space    begin list    square    leftmargin 1em  itemindent 0em     item This item uses the margin and indentation provided above   end list    Defining a customlist environment  The shortcomings of the list solution can be ameliorated by defining a new customlist environment that basically redefines the itemize environment from Beamer but also incorporates the  leftmargin and  itemindent  etc   parameters   Put the following in your preamble    makeatletter  newenvironment customlist  2      ifnum  itemdepth  gt 2 relax  toodeep else        advance  itemdepth  ne         beamer computepref  itemdepth         usebeamerfont itemize enumerate  beameritemnestingprefix body          usebeamercolor fg  itemize enumerate  beameritemnestingprefix body          usebeamertemplate itemize enumerate  beameritemnestingprefix body begin          begin list                         usebeamertemplate itemize  beameritemnestingprefix item                       leftmargin  1  itemindent  2              def makelabel  1                                         hss llap                         usebeamerfont  itemize  beameritemnestingprefix item                            usebeamercolor fg  itemize  beameritemnestingprefix item   1                                                     fi        end list     usebeamertemplate itemize enumerate  beameritemnestingprefix body end      makeatother   Now  to use an itemized list with custom indentation  you can use the following environment   The first argument is for  leftmargin and the second is for  itemindent   The default values are 2 5em and 0em respectively    begin customlist  2 5em  0em      item Any normal item can go here   end customlist    A custom bullet style can be incorporated into the customlist solution using the standard Beamer mechanism of  setbeamertemplate   See the answers to this question on the TeX Stack Exchange for more information    Alternatively  the bullet style can just be modified directly within the environment  by replacing  usebeamertemplate itemize  beameritemnestingprefix item  with whatever bullet style you d like to use  e g    square

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Setting  itemindent for a new itemize environment solves the problem    newenvironment beameritemize     begin itemize     setlength  itemsep  1 5ex     setlength  parskip  0pt     setlength  parsep  0pt        addtolength  itemindent  -2em        end itemize

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