General ⇒ Descript List Indenting

[bramp]

I'm having problems customising the apperance of my lists. Take for example:

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\begin{description}
  \item[Item 1] A big long bit of text describing item one, which goes on and on and on, hopefully on to another line

  \item[Item 2] A big long bit of text describing item one, which goes on and on and on, hopefully on to another line
\end{description}

Now if we take Item 1 for example, it wraps onto two lines. The second line it is indented. What I want is to reduce that indentation.

I have tried using the enumitem package, but have not been able to find the command to reduce that indentation.

Can someone help?
thanks

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi bramp,

one possibility is to redefine the description environment:

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\renewenvironment{description}
  {\list{}{\labelwidth0pt\leftmargin0pt
    \let\makelabel\descriptionlabel}}
  {\endlist}

Stefan

[localghost]

The enumitem package offers to set the option leftmargin, which is indirectly responsible for the indentation of the second line (and all further ones).

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\begin{description}[leftmargin=0pt]
  \item[Item 1:] A big long bit of text describing item one, which goes on and on and on, hopefully on to another line

  \item[Item 2:] A big long bit of text describing item one, which goes on and on and on, hopefully on to another line
\end{description}

You can set this option globally by defining some properties for the description environment in the preamble.

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\setdescription{leftmargin=0pt}

Further explanations are given by the documentation of enumitem.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[bramp]

ah thankyou!

I tired a bunch of different things from emumitem, but not leftmargin. I assumed that would be the margin for the whole list, but changing it seems to only effect the 2nd line.

thanks
Andrew