itemize - Customized items

Question

In the following MWE I would like to have automatically the labels of items shaped in bold and the colons added instead of being typed.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
    \item[ALG :]
          méthode de type ALG-ébrique
\item[ARI :]
      méthode de type ARI-thmétique

\item[GÉO :]
      méthode de type GÉO-métrique

\end{itemize}
\end{document}

To make the font bold: \begin{itemize}[font=\bfseries] Alternatively, you might be interested in description instead of itemize. For a description list with automatically added colons, take a look at this answer: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/238763/134144 — leandriis, Oct 27 '20 at 19:17
How to align description item labels on the right? should help solve this. — leandriis, Oct 27 '20 at 19:34

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 27 '20 at 19:44

You could define a new list to do the formatting automatically by changing how \item behaves.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\let\olditem\item
\newlist{methods}{itemize}{1}
\setlist[methods]{%
    align=right,
    before=\changeitem,
    font=\bfseries,
    after=\let\item\olditem
}
\newcommand*{\changeitem}{%
    \renewcommand*{\item}[1][]{%
        \olditem[##1 :]
    }%
}
\begin{document}
\begin{methods}
    \item[ALG]
          méthode de type ALG-ébrique
    \item[ARI]
          méthode de type ARI-thmétique
    \item[GÉO]
          méthode de type GÉO-métrique
\end{methods}
\end{document}

Useful and versatile solution. I like that ! – projetmbc Oct 27 '20 at 20:25 — projetmbc, Oct 27 '20 at 20:25

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 27 '20 at 19:55

Here is a completely different approach using a tabular:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{array}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{@{}>{\bfseries}r<{ :}@{~}l}
    ALG & méthode de type ALG-ébrique \
    ARI & méthode de type ARI-thmétique\
    GÉO & méthode de type GÉO-métrique\
\end{tabular}
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
\begin{tabular}{@{}>{\bfseries}r<{ :}@{~}l}
    ALG & méthode de type ALG-ébrique \
    ARI & méthode de type ARI-thmétique\
    GÉO & méthode de type GÉO-métrique\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

Easy to use and to transform to an environment. – projetmbc Oct 27 '20 at 20:25 — projetmbc, Oct 27 '20 at 20:25

itemize - Customized items

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