Spacing not working in description environment

Question

I have done this before but for some reason it's not working in my current file.

\begin{description}[largest]
 \item[small] Foo
 \item[largest] Foobar
\end{description}

This above code give the error

package enumitem error: largest undefined

an r is missing in \end{description}. Plus you have to post MWE, mimimal working examples. — Denis, Apr 02 '19 at 15:52
Please help us help you and add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. Reproducing the problem and finding out what the issue is will be much easier when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}. — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Apr 02 '19 at 16:08

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 02 '19 at 17:14

2

You perhaps want

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}

\begin{description}[widest=largest,itemindent=*,align=left]
 \item[small] Foo
 \item[largest] Foobar
\end{description}

\end{document}

answered Apr 02 '19 at 17:14

egreg

1,121,712

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 02 '19 at 16:09

-1

Fixed. I had imported the enumitem package. It works fine without that.

answered Apr 02 '19 at 16:09

Faustus

152

2

without the enumitem package description does not have an optional argument so [largest] would be an error. This does not seem to answer the question asked. – David Carlisle Apr 02 '19 at 16:10

Spacing not working in description environment

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