Text Alignement under specific items

Question

I want to align my text under the symbol ":" or another, for example I want something like that :

 First thing : Blablablabla ...
               Blablabla
 Second : blablablabla
          blabla

And I don't know how to do it, I tried many environments, like {enumerate} or {itemize} or {description} but none of them worked.

How can I do something like I want ?

Thank you.

Thank you, but it didn't help me much : in fact I want to write what I want before having the remaing text aligned, for example for the references in an article :

[Friedman1967] Here there is the reference
               which is long.
[Zu2014] Here is an other, the alignment is different.
         but it is stil coherent.

I do not know if I am very clear sorry.

Welcome to TeX SX! What you want is not quite clear. You have a list, and you want lines after the first to be aligned with the colon? — Bernard, Dec 14 '14 at 11:45
There is a similar question already solved here. It uses the package enumitem. I hope this helps. — jatorre, Dec 14 '14 at 11:44
Yes, you understand well, it is like the examples I gave. So whar do I need to do ? — Mickael, Dec 15 '14 at 06:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 10 '20 at 12:32

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One way to obtain the desired alignment is to define a custom macro:

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Notes:

The showframe package was used just to show the page margins. It is not needed in your actual use case.

Code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{showframe}
\newlength{\LabelWidth}
\newcommand*{\AlignedText}[2]{%
    \par\noindent\textbf{#1:}
    \settowidth{\LabelWidth}{\textbf{#1} }%
    \parbox[t]{\dimexpr\linewidth-\LabelWidth-\parsep\relax}{#2\strut}%
}
\begin{document}
\AlignedText{Friedman1967}{Here is the reference
               which is quite long and spills onto a second line.}
\AlignedText{Zu2014}{Here is an other, the alignment is different,
         but it is still coherent, and also takes more than one line.}
\end{document}

edited Jun 10 '20 at 12:32

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answered Dec 17 '14 at 22:08

Peter Grill

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Exactly what I want ! Thank you very much ! – Mickael Dec 18 '14 at 14:08
@Mickael: If the solution worked for you please see How do you accept an answer? and perhaps How does accepting an answer work?. – Peter Grill Dec 18 '14 at 16:04

Text Alignement under specific items

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