General ⇒ "description" environment

[trnbvn]

In the "description", items are bold. Is there any way I can redefine to have items in normal style?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

it depends on the document class you are using, because a description environment is usually defined by classes. For instance with article this redefinition of \descriptionlabel will work:

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\renewcommand*\descriptionlabel[1]{%
\hspace\labelsep\normalfont #1}

Stefan

[localghost]

Have a look at the enumitem package. More possible solutions may be found by using the search function of the forum.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[trnbvn]

It works beautifully! Thanks.

Hi,

it depends on the document class you are using, because a description environment is usually defined by classes. For instance with article this redefinition of \descriptionlabel will work:

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\renewcommand*\descriptionlabel[1]{%
\hspace\labelsep\normalfont #1}

Stefan

[localghost]

Just for the record a solution with the aforementioned enumitem package by inserting just two lines in the preamble.

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\usepackage{enumitem}
\setdescription{font=\normalfont}

[trnbvn]

Thanks