How to produce side by side item and description

Asked Mar 04 '21 at 19:37

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What I'd like to do is this:

Item 1: description description description description description % edge of page
        description description description description description
        description description description description description
Item 2: description description description description description 
        description description description description description
        description description description description description

etc. with the description wrapping at the edge of the page but not starting at the beginning of the line. I'm fairly new to Latex not even sure what to google here to find the answer. Hopefully someone could point me in the right direction.

asked Mar 04 '21 at 19:37

Mike

What should "Item 1" and "Item 2" be replaced with? Bulletpoints, numbers or a word/text? – leandriis Mar 04 '21 at 19:43
Welcome to TeX SX! What would be the real text of the labels? An enumeration? – Bernard Mar 04 '21 at 19:44
The name of the item (ie just text) rather than a symbol – Mike Mar 04 '21 at 19:44
\begin{itemize}\item[Item 1:] description description description \item[Item 2:] description description description... \end{itemize} should give something similar... You need to add \usepackage{enumitem} in your preamble... – koleygr Mar 04 '21 at 19:45
Are all "Item..." texts (labels) equally long? If not, do you want to indent the description text with respect to the corresponding label or with respect to the longest label inside of the same list? – leandriis Mar 04 '21 at 19:46
I would use a tabularx environment , like this \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{}rX@{}} Item 1& description description description … \\ Item 2 & …… \end{tabularx} – Bernard Mar 04 '21 at 19:47
@leandriis ideally indent with respect to longest label – Mike Mar 04 '21 at 19:50
thanks @Bernard I'll try it – Mike Mar 04 '21 at 19:51
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Description-like environment with fixed labels width seems to be related. – leandriis Mar 04 '21 at 19:51
yes it does indeed thanks – Mike Mar 04 '21 at 19:52

How to produce side by side item and description

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