Text Formatting ⇒ text justify within description environment

[vaalsta]

When using the description environment the paragraph text (after the item heading) is flushleft but raggedright. I want it to be fully justified (right and left). If I put the text in flushright environment the left side becomes jagged and including both flushright and flushleft does not work.

How do I do this?


example:

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\begin{description}
\item[heading1:]This is the text that I want justified.  If there is enough text to make it multi-line the right hand edge is always ragged but I need it to be flush on both the left and right side.
\item[headin2:]etc...
\end{description}

Thanks all.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi vaalsta,

welcome to the board!
This example is full justified by default. Try:

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{description}
\item[heading1:]This is the text that I want justified.  If there is enough text to make it multi-line the right hand edge is always ragged but I need it to be flush on both the left and right side.
\item[heading2:]etc...
\end{description}
\end{document}

If you would post a compilable minimal example we could see the problem - it's caused somewhere else in your code.

Stefan

[vaalsta]

Hi Stefan,
Thanks for the welcome and the reply. In starting to create a MWE I realised the problem. I was using a document template someone else had set up and I failed to see the \raggedright command hidden in the preamble. Removing this fixed the problem and didn't introduce any for my document.

Solved, Thanks!