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Please take a look at the following code and its output: The use of switchcolumn before itemize widens the column width (compared to the itemize1 sentence).

For some reasons, I need to keep on using this syntax and want to eliminate this difference. Is there any solution?

\documentclass{article} \RequirePackage{paracol} \begin{document} \begin{paracol}{2} \begin{enumerate} \item {} enumerate sentence \begin{itemize} \item {} subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 \end{itemize} \switchcolumn interfering text \switchcolumn \begin{itemize} \item {} subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 \end{itemize} \end{enumerate} \end{paracol} \end{document} 

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  • Can you put parccol inside enumerate ? Commented Oct 30, 2019 at 7:09

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Paracol keeps duplicates of counters, but not lengths. This is a Q&D solution. There are LOTS of lengths used by lists (\leftmargin, \totalleftmargin, \rightmargin) which might need duplkicate values.

\documentclass{article} \RequirePackage{paracol} \newlength{\savewidth} \begin{document} \begin{paracol}{2} \begin{enumerate} \item {} enumerate sentence \begin{itemize} \item {} subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 subitemize1 \end{itemize} \savewidth=\linewidth \switchcolumn interfering text \switchcolumn \linewidth=\savewidth \begin{itemize} \item {} subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 subitemize2 \end{itemize} \end{enumerate} \end{paracol} \end{document} 

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