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From: kenny@uf.msc.umn.edu (Kenneth R. Goers)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Problems with List-Making.
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Date: 13 Feb 91 17:54:50 GMT
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Reply-To: kenny@msc.edu (Kenny Goers)
Organization: Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Minneapolis, MN
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I've been trying to make up a listing environment that looks more like
a man page option list than LaTeX's, but here's my problem.

When you have an item label (ie, \item[Label]) and the \labelwidth is
larger than the width of "Label" the label is right justified rather
than left justified.  For example:

LaTeX list Environment:

        first   First item in a list.
          foo   Foo label.
         next   Next Label.

Want:

    first       First label.
    foo         Foo Label.
    next        Next Label.

There's not a peep about this in LaTeX manual. My question, how do you get
LaTeX to left justify rather than right justify the label in it's field?

kenny.

PS, Trying to define a flushleft environment inside the braces ([]) of the
    item label does not work.
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Kenny Goers          Minnesota Supercomputer Center        kenny@msc.edu