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How can I adjust line spacing of numbers to be in front of text lines within description list: I couldn't managed to solve the problem with lineno package.

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{fancyhdr,lipsum}
\makeatletter

 \newsavebox{\@linebox}
 \savebox{\@linebox}[3em][t]{\parbox[t]{3em}{%
   \@tempcnta\@ne\relax
   \loop{\underline{\scriptsize\the\@tempcnta}}\\
     \advance\@tempcnta by \@ne\ifnum\@tempcnta<48\repeat}}

 \pagestyle{fancy}
 \fancyhead{}
 \fancyfoot{}
 \fancyhead[CO]{\scriptsize How to Count Lines}
 \fancyhead[RO,LE]{\footnotesize\thepage}
%% insert this block within a conditional
 \fancyhead[LE]{\footnotesize\thepage\begin{picture}(0,0)%
      \put(-26,-25){\usebox{\@linebox}}%
      \end{picture}}

 \fancyhead[LO]{%
    \begin{picture}(0,0)%
      \put(-18,-25){\usebox{\@linebox}}%
     \end{picture}}
\fancyfoot[C]{\scriptsize Draft copy}
%% end conditional
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\section*{Lorem Ipsum}
{\setstretch{2.8}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
$ALDF$ & Average annual load factor of a DT or HV substation\\
$ALSF$ & Average annual loss factor of a DT or HV substation\\
$APF$ & Average power factor\\
$B$ & Number of all load blocks\\
\end{tabular}
}
\end{document}

numbers are not aligned with text lines.

I modified the code in (https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/16012/104963) to ask this question.

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  • Don't do it that way - use lineno package. – Thruston May 06 '16 at 19:57
  • the problem is that lineno does not work for tabular lists e.g. when i make a description list. – rgholizadehr May 06 '16 at 20:03
  • lineno works fine for me with description lists. Please post a complete minimal working example that shows your problem. – Thruston May 06 '16 at 20:04
  • The numbers you get in that format are just for approximately pointing to a line, they aren't supposed to be “real” line numbers. For proof reading they are more than sufficient. – egreg May 06 '16 at 20:22

1 Answers1

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Use lineno package.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lineno}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\linenumbers
\section*{Lorem Ipsum}
\setstretch{1.8}
\lipsum[2]
\end{document}

enter image description here

This will also work with the standard lists.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lineno}
\usepackage{setspace}
\begin{document}
\linenumbers
\section*{Lorem Ipsum}
\setstretch{1.8}
\begin{description}
    \item[ALDF] Average annual load factor of a DT or HV substation
    \item[ALSF] Average annual loss factor of a DT or HV substation
    \item[APF] Average power factor
    \item[B] Number of all load blocks
\end{description}
\end{document}

enter image description here

And if you don't like the format of the standard lists you can always customize them. Here's one way to modify description to match the OP example. Adding this to the preamble of the second example:

\renewcommand{\descriptionlabel}[1]{\hspace{\labelsep}\makebox[1.27cm][l]{\itshape #1}}

gives this:

enter image description here

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