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Given the many similar questions on TeX.SE, my desired answer may be somewhere else on this site, but I have not been able to find it -- apologies if this is a duplicate!

I am writing the following in my document.

In this section, we introduce the concept of textit{information percolation}, as introduced by Lubetzky and Sly.

The rough idea will be to separate the state space in `clusters', which will then be coloured RED, BLUE or GREEN (at time $t$) according to the following (rough) conditions:



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parbox{2em}{raggedleftbcdot,}

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    the RED clusters will be the vertices whose states depend on the initial configuration;}



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parbox{2em}{raggedleftbcdot,}

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    the BLUE clusters will be singletons with votes that are iid $Unif([q])$ random variables;}



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parbox{2em}{raggedleftbcdot,}

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    the GREEN clusters will be independent of the initial state, but have highly nontrivial dependencies inside the clusters -- it is the green clusters that embody the complicated correlation-nature of the voting model.}



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A formal definition is forthcoming.

Here bcdot is simply ensuremath{bm{cdot}}, using the 'bold maths' package bm.
This gives the following output.

This is in essence my version of an itemise, use with spacing that I prefer. However, as you may have noticed, there are a few issues:

• the spacing between the second and third lines is too small;


• (most importantly) the bullet is in the centre of the three lines (horizontally), instead of inline with the top one.

How can I fix these two? -- namely, get the spacing unified and get the bullet on the top line?

I was actually able to solve my own question by using the enumitem package. The following is a MWE for this.
Since I used this on a number of occasions throughout my paper, I made a new environment for it.

documentclass{article}



usepackage{enumitem}



newenvironment{itemise}%

{begin{itemize}[noitemsep,topsep=smallskipamount,label={textnormal{CUSTOM}}]}

{end{itemize}}



begin{document}



begin{itemise}

    item item 1

    item item 2

end{itemise}



end{document}

Of course, one can change the label to be whatever is desired.

This TeX.SE question is helpful for understanding enumitem: topsep, itemsep, partopsep and parsep - what does each of them mean (and what about the bottom)?.