Text Formatting ⇒ Centered Descriptions

[niglas]

I'm going to create a list of abbreviations. I tried nomenclature, but my version did not seem to have support for that, so this is my new approach.

I would like to have the whole description list centered or indented a couple of cm.

Right now it looks like this:

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This is text in another paragraph.

Abbr1      Desc1
Abbr two   Desc2

This is text in another paragraph.

I would like to have it like this:

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This is text in another paragraph.

          Abbr 1     Desc1
          Abbr two   Desc2

This is text in another paragraph.

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\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}

This is text in another paragraph

\begin{description}[style=multiline, leftmargin=3cm]
  \item[Abbr 1] Desc1
  \item[Abbr two] Desc2
\end{description}

This is text in another paragraph

\end{document}

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)

[localghost]

Put the description list into a minipage and center it.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten