Re: Dealing with wide labels in description environment

[Loris Bennett]

Hi Juan,

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:

> Hello,
>
> "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
>
>> I have tried tweaking options such as labelindent and labelwidth in a
>> somewhat haphazard manner with, say,
>>  
>>   #+attr_latex: :options [labelindent=0pt, labelwidth=10ex] 
>>
>> but most of my attempts seem to have the main effect of just shifting
>> the whole list to the right without right-justifying the labels.
>
> The question is more on the side of LaTeX, and the enumitem package
> (which you must have loaded for those options. See:
> https://www.ctan.org/pkg/enumitem). For the effect you are looking for
> you can try this (for horizontal lengths, it is better to use 'em' than
> 'ex):

Yes, of course - using Org for a decade so or has helped me avoid and thus
forget about certain LaTeX details.

> #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{enumitem}
>
> #+attr_latex: :options
> [labelindent=0em,itemindent=0em,align=right,labelwidth=10em,labelsep=.5em,leftmargin=15.5em]
> - short label :: this looks fine
> - very annoying overly long label :: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer 
> adipiscing
>   elit. Donec hendrerit tempor tellus. Donec pretium posuere tellus. Proin 
> quam nisl,
>   tincidunt et, mattis eget, convallis nec, purus. Cum sociis natoque 
> penatibus et magnis
>   dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Nulla posuere. Donec vitae 
> dolor. Nullam
>   tristique diam non turpis. Cras placerat accumsan nulla. Nullam rutrum. Nam 
> vestibulum
>   accumsan nisl.

Thank, that's what I needed - 'leftmargin' seems to be the main thing
that was missing.  

Gruß

Loris

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