enumitem: newlist with description and bullet

Asked Feb 21 '13 at 14:58

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I've seen quite a few questions here on how to use enumitem with descriptions and bullets. I couldn't however find a solution where they created a newlist and that's where I have my problem:

I defined in the preamble

\usepackage{enumitem}
\newlist{codescription}{description}{1}
\setlist[codescription]{label=\textbullet}

And then in the document

\begin{codescription}
\item[title] test2
\end{codescription}

But even this small example (I was actually trying to set the font of the description element to a monospaced font) doesn't work. Did I get something completely wrong?

edited Feb 21 '13 at 14:59

lockstep

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asked Feb 21 '13 at 14:58

navige

I should mention that it works if I don't use description, but itemize in the preamble part. But why? The documentation doesn't say anything about description being different than itemize, I think. – navige Feb 21 '13 at 15:03
I found a solution how to do what I want (see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/57876/add-bullet-points-to-description-lists, but to be honest I don't know why the code above does not work. – navige Feb 21 '13 at 15:22
The key label isn't meaningful in description. I'm going to add a different solution to my answer to the duplicate question. Do you agree that this one can be closed? – egreg Feb 21 '13 at 15:32

enumitem: newlist with description and bullet

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