Is it possible to have an enumerate- or description-like environment, with \item redefined in such a way so that each \item puts its content inside a minipage? Ideally, including the item number/title within the minipage?
Failing this, is the same possible with \parbox{} instead of minipage?
For background, I'd use this in conjunction with this answer, so that I could have paragraph-like items that are stuffed into boxes that are say for example, (1/3-epsilon)\textwidth wide, and could then progress the items horizontally, 3 to a row. And then the next row would begin low enough to clear the tallest of the previous row's items.
shortlstpackage or thetaskspackage. See myanswer to a similar question. Note shorlst, albeit on CTAN, is not part of TeX Live nor MiKTeX, for licensing reasons. – Bernard Jul 21 '15 at 23:55\paritem, but I need it to be used as\itemis used, without requirement of braces. – alex.jordan Jul 22 '15 at 00:01tasksis in standard distributions, though. – cfr Jul 22 '15 at 00:03\item This is my item, not\item{This is my item}. It looks like\paritemhas to work in the latter way, to pass its argument to the\parbox. – alex.jordan Jul 22 '15 at 00:15taskshas the same functionalities with the\task*and\task!commands. See §3.2 of the documentation. – Bernard Jul 22 '15 at 00:20taskspackage is great. Is it there an easy option to getruninstyle tasks? I don't see it in the documentation. But perhaps ifexsheetsis loaded too? – alex.jordan Jul 22 '15 at 04:16enumitemand make anenumeratelist with an item that extends to a second line, the optionitemindent=1.2emsimulates what I mean (but only for single digit enumerated items). – alex.jordan Jul 22 '15 at 18:00tasks. – Bernard Jul 22 '15 at 18:34