Indentation used in Latex for \items

Our guidelines say to use 2 space indentation for \items which span multiple lines, which I find to be very helpful: it's clear to see where the bullets start and end, and when bullet lists are nested. We're also inconsistent in whether the \items are separated by newlines, and whether the text should start on the same line as the \item. When we edit old text which doesn't use follow our guidelines however, we tend to stick with the old style for consistency, at which rate we'll never move to the new, improved coding style.

Can we do a global whitespace change to fix the old formatting style so that we can follow the guidelines when applying edits?

Start with the linked Specification Style Guidelines, then inspect the draft's existing LaTeX \item formatting to identify the inconsistent patterns. Done means applying the agreed whitespace style consistently across the affected text while preserving the document content and structure.