Theses, Books, Title pages ⇒ aligning text in description env

[templateuser]

Hi,

I'm new to the 'forum' and struggling a bit with this (otherwise great) template.
I'd like to align the text in a description environment (make it block-like) but none of the options I found elsewhere seem to work.
Any ideas?

Thanks,
Marcel

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Marcel,

the description environment doesn't offer much alignment features. However, you could use an additional packages, such as enumitem or mdwlist, to extend description capabilities.

Besides that, you could switch to a tabular environment, which is great for positioning and aligning. Or combine description with \parbox (or minipage, but that's too much) or tabular.

I recommend tabular, where you can place the labels in each row in the first column.

Stefan