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From: aceverj@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Jaap Verhage)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: A question I can't answer
Message-ID: <455@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
Date: 7 Jun 90 18:45:09 GMT
Reply-To: norm@ionaacad.bitnet (Norman Walsh)
Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands
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From: NORM@IONAACAD.BITNET (Norman Walsh)

The person in the above-mentioned address sent me a question
which, to someone rather good at getting emTeX up and running,
but no TeXpert at all, is over my head. I inclose the question
below; Norm would certainly like it if you'd be so good as to
send him mail with an answer. Thanks.

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Now I have a TeX-related question that I am hoping that you can answer.
I'm pretty sure the answer is simple but I can't find anything quite like
it in The TeXbook.  How can I produce the following table:

param1              description of param1 that might extend for more
                    than one line (hence it isn't a table, I guess) and
                    that I would still like justified.

parameter2          description of parameter2.  The \item{} macro produces
                    something like this but "param1" and "parameter2" are
                    right justified, and I want them left justified.  Is
                    it a matter of specifying the right kind of glue?

                                                       ndw
Bitnet: norm@ionaacad.bitnet

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Regards, Jaap.

Jaap Verhage, Academic Computer Centre, State University at Utrecht, Holland.
aceverj@cc.ruu.nl     +<-*|*->+     I claim *every*thing and speak for myself