General ⇒ Indent in the {description} enviroment

[japc126]

First, Hi Latex Community!

How can I force latex to indent all the paragraphs in the {description} enviroment?

for example,

\begin{description}
\item{Something: Other thing\\} This is the text that I want indented
\end{description}

So it would look like this:

Something: Other thing
___________hsakjfbibgiolasfbgousahgosgovbfiogboigboubgoberogre
________jlbsbfbfiygbgoisbfuo;bsfdougbo;sabgobsgfoghosfhgoupsgfj
________hlsgb9yisagbfsgfpohgbsdigbso;gfpusofg.

thanks for all help

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi japc126,

welcome to the LaTeX Community board!
The text of the description environment above is indented, that's why I don't understand your question with that example. Perhaps you could explain more what you need but the description environment does not.

Stefan

[japc126]

No, when I try to write something that way is comes out like this:

Something: Other thing
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb

_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb

_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb

And I want it to look like this (with extra indent on the first line)

Something: Other thing
___________khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsa
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb

___________khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsa
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb

___________khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsa
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
_______khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb

[Juanjo]

This example may help:

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\newenvironment{indenteddescription}%
  {\begin{list}{}{\setlength{\labelwidth}{0pt}
   \setlength{\itemindent}{-\leftmargin}
   \setlength{\listparindent}{\parindent}
   \renewcommand{\makelabel}{\descriptionlabel}}}%
  {\end{list}}

\begin{indenteddescription}
  \item[Something to be described:]\mbox{}\par
       \lipsum[1] \par
       \lipsum[2]
  \item[Other thing to be described:]\mbox{}\par
       \lipsum[3] \par
       \lipsum[4]
\end{indenteddescription}

\end{document}

The definition of indenteddescription is just that of the standard description environment plus the line \setlength{\listparindent}{\parindent} in order to achieve the desired indentation.

[mmperillo]

A simple and dirty way to solve it by doing

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\begin{description}
\item[\hspace{0.75cm}khfsakhfilgbfob] khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
\item[khfsakhfilgbfob] khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
\item[khfsakhfilgbfob] khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
\item[khfsakhfilgbfob] khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
\item[khfsakhfilgbfob] khfsakhfilgbfobsoigbosjbgflisdfbisdhfbsao;gb
\end{description}