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Ok, I looked at some answers, and they suggest to use the package enumitem and the option [leftmargin=*].

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}
  \section{Foo}
    \subsection{Bar}
      \subsection{Foobar}
        \paragraph{Fubar}
          \begin{description}[leftmargin=*]
            \item[First Item] The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
            \item[Second Item] The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
          \end{description}
\end{document}

But this does not completely remove the indentation. Here's the result (notice the space before "fox").

enter image description here

On the other hand, leftmargin=0cm works, but I'm afraid it's not the same thing.

If the whole list is indented, I want the wrapped text to indent under at the start of the label, not at the left margin of the page.

I'm using a fresh installation of the latest MikTex (21 Oct 2014) x64, together with the latest TexStudio (2.8.6) on Windows 7 SP1 x64.

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    Welcome to TeX.SX! What do you mean by "it's not the same thing?". You should adapt your example code in order to show a situation where your whole list is indented. – LaRiFaRi Nov 10 '14 at 13:58
  • @LaRiFaRi I'm not sure it's the same thing, it's just something I tried. I'm sure you can find/encounter a situation where the whole list is indented. – Agostino Nov 10 '14 at 14:08
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    leftmargin=0cm is the answer – egreg Nov 10 '14 at 14:09
  • As far as I know, the \leftmargin dimension is always relative to an existing indentation –  Nov 10 '14 at 14:09
  • @ChristianHupfer Thanks, I'd upvote your comment if I had the rep – Agostino Nov 10 '14 at 14:12

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Use \leftmargin=0pt to shift the indentation to the left boundary, this works in multiply nested lists.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}
  \section{Foo}
    \subsection{Bar}
      \subsection{Foobar}
        \paragraph{Fubar}
        \begin{itemize}
          \item
          \begin{description}[leftmargin=0pt]
            \item[First Item] The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
            \item[Second Item] The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
          \end{description}
          \end{itemize}
\end{document}

enter image description here

  • you don't need environment itemize, nor that extra \item. It's enough to replace [leftmargin=*] with [leftmargin=0pt]. – RicoRally Nov 10 '14 at 14:13
  • @RicoRally: It was just an example to show that the text of the inner list is aligned correctly nevertheless! –  Nov 10 '14 at 14:15
  • Upvoting, anyway. :) I thought it could be even more useful. – RicoRally Nov 10 '14 at 14:16
  • BTW any idea why the paragraph "bold" looks smaller than the bold of the description items? – Agostino Nov 10 '14 at 14:22
  • @Agostino: I should have a look on the standard paragraph fontsize... –  Nov 10 '14 at 14:27
  • @ChristianHupfer I haven't set it, anything I should add to the code to make it work better? Thanks. – Agostino Nov 10 '14 at 14:33
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You can also use [wide=0\parindent]:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}
  \section{Foo}
    \subsection{Bar}
      \subsection{Foobar}
        \paragraph{Fubar}
          \begin{description}[wide=0\parindent]
            \item[First Item] The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
            \item[Second Item] The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
          \end{description}
\end{document}

enter image description here

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    What's the difference? – Agostino Nov 10 '14 at 14:21
  • @Agostino It is another method. Take it that way. –  Nov 10 '14 at 14:22
  • I know this is an old thread, but for me this one worked better, since @user31729's approach sent the text past my document-wide margins. This one just filled out the text up until the document margins, without adding more for the list. – jtb Apr 27 '22 at 21:22