<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Feb 15, 2008, at 11:38 AM, David Watson wrote:</div></div><div><blockquote type="cite">How about a tabular environment, something like:<br><br>\begin{tabular}{lp{10cm}}<br>$x$ & ong, windy and verbose description that may span more<br> than one line, but if does, it should be properly indented. \\<br>$y$ & newdescription<br>\end{tabular}<br></blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div>On Feb 15, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Alan Munn wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><br>Why not use a tabular (or tabularx) environment? (or longtable if it will span across pages). -Alan<br></blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div></div></blockquote><div>On Feb 15, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Peter C. Lichtner wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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></div></blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div>On Feb 15, 2008, at 6:07 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">Take a look at the nomencl package, it may do what you want.<br></blockquote><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div>Thanks to all who made suggestions. For the the time being, \begin{tabular}{lp{\textwidth}} seems the easiest way to go. Though I've used latex for many years, I did not know about the column specification p{}... The nomencl package is too complicated for my needs. It works like makeindex by automatically compiling a nomenclature list from tagged keywords in the text. In my case, it is much easier to create the list of symbols manually.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div>Themis</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></body></html>