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I was trying to emulate the style found in some math textbooks of having titled paragraphs through a sidebar of sorts, and i was wondering what the best way to go about it was. For now, i am (ab?)using the itemize environment, by changing item names at will, i.e.

\begin{itemize}
  \item[Encryption] \textit{Encrypting} means you care about the message's...
  \item[Signing] When you sign a message...
\end{itemize}

example output of my approach

As you can see, it "works", as long as the paragraph title is not too long, but it does get cumbersome as the paragraphs get longer, and in particular i can't see myself writing a whole document like this (this example was more of a paragraph within a larger document.

Is there an easier way to get this effect? Thanks in advance!

quartztz
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    titlesec can do that for you. The manual has just such an example on p. 22. – Ingmar Jun 12 '22 at 06:00
  • That looks like a very useful tool, i'll look more into it. Thank you for replying this fast! – quartztz Jun 12 '22 at 06:04
  • What if you just change the two itemize keys by description? If you are no are not happy with this new format, see also here. – Fran Jun 12 '22 at 10:49
  • You could use paracol with the title in one column and the text in the other. If you don't know the widths a priori, you might try ltxtable (not sure if the paragraphs will break across pages). – John Kormylo Jun 12 '22 at 14:25

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