[std, macros, styles] Use 'enumerate' package to make vertical spacing of lists uniform. (#1134)

This change makes it so that lists are now spaced the same regardless of whether they are preceded by a paragraph break.

Author: tkoeppe

README.rst

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Install the `MacTeX distribution <http://tug.org/mactex/>`_.
 If you are on a slow network, you'll want to get the `BasicTeX package <http://tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html>`_ instead,
 then run the following command to install the other packages that the draft requires:
 
-   sudo tlmgr install latexmk isodate substr relsize ulem fixme rsfs extract layouts
+   sudo tlmgr install latexmk isodate substr relsize ulem fixme rsfs extract layouts enumitem
 
 ------------
 Instructions

source/macros.tex

@@ -353,8 +353,8 @@
 %%--------------------------------------------------
 %% Indented text
 \newenvironment{indented}
-{\list{}{}\item\relax}
-{\endlist}
+{\begin{indenthelper}\item\relax}
+{\end{indenthelper}}
 
 %%--------------------------------------------------
 %% Library item descriptions

source/std.tex

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 \usepackage{parskip}      % handle non-indented paragraphs "properly"
 \usepackage{array}        % new column definitions for tables
 \usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
+\usepackage{enumitem}
 \usepackage{color}        % define colors for strikeouts and underlines
 \usepackage{amsmath}      % additional math symbols
 \usepackage{mathrsfs}     % mathscr font

source/styles.tex

@@ -98,7 +98,13 @@
 % set style for main text
 \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
 \setlength{\parskip}{1ex}
-\setlength{\partopsep}{-1.5ex}
+
+% set style for lists (itemizations, enumerations)
+\setlength{\partopsep}{0pt}
+\newlist{indenthelper}{itemize}{1}
+\setlist[itemize]{parsep=\parskip, partopsep=0pt, itemsep=0pt, topsep=0pt}
+\setlist[enumerate]{parsep=\parskip, partopsep=0pt, itemsep=0pt, topsep=0pt}
+\setlist[indenthelper]{parsep=\parskip, partopsep=0pt, itemsep=0pt, topsep=0pt, label={}}
 
 %%--------------------------------------------------
 %%  set caption style and delimiter