General ⇒ Right aligning description list labels

[Lehrer]

Hello,
I have to typeset a solution manual using a description list. The labels are of variable length -- "Q1." to "Q30." (that is 3 to 4 characters). By default, the description lists are left aligned so that "Q9." when followed by "Q10." aligns the Q's at left margin. Is there a simple way to right align them such that the `.' following the question numbers are perfectly aligned? Any URLs where it is discussed will be helpful. Thanks in advance.

[localghost]

You can use the new defined xlist environment, which is introduced in another topic [1]. Pay attention to the hints for its usage.

[1] vertically aligning text of an interview so it looks good


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[balf]

The enumitem package also lets you do that. You just use the enumerate environment,specifying the label as
label=Q\arabic*.
The parameter align=right is the default.

B.A.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

this question was also posted to comp.text.tex and has got an answer redefining \descriptionlabel.

Stefan