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Might want to try:<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div>% *** DEFLIST ****</div><div>%</div><div>% Aufruf: \begin{deflist}{Label}</div><div>% \item[label] TeX</div><div>% \end{deflist}</div><div>% erzeugt: Liste, bei der das laengste Label die Einrueckungstiefe bestimmt</div><div>%</div><div>\def\deflabel#1{\textbf{#1}\hfill}</div><div>%\def\deflabel#1{#1\hfill}</div><div>\def\deflist#1{</div><div> \list{}{\settowidth{\labelwidth}{\textbf{#1}}</div><div>% \list{}{\settowidth{\labelwidth}{#1}</div><div> \setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth}</div><div> \addtolength{\leftmargin}{\labelsep}</div><div> \let\makelabel \deflabel}}</div><div>\let\enddeflist\endlist</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Don't have a reference to who wrote this.</div><div>...Peter</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div>On Feb 15, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Themis Matsoukas wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Feb 15, 2008, at 11:38 AM, David Watson wrote:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">How about a tabular environment, something like:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">\begin{tabular}{lp{10cm}}</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$x$ & ong, windy and verbose<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>description that may span more</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>than one line, but if does, it should be properly indented. \\</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$y$ & newdescription</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">\end{tabular}</div> </blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">That's promising --except that it cannot span multiple pages.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Themis Matsoukas</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:matsoukas@engr.psu.edu">matsoukas@engr.psu.edu</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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