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From: anita@brahms.udel.edu (Anita Marie Hoover)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Nested descriptions - help!
Message-ID: <20765@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 91 17:41:25 GMT
References: <11329@uwm.edu>
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <11329@uwm.edu> duncan@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Shan D Duncan) writes:
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=>How can the description environment be made to indent when
=>nested?
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=>  Label: Here is the main item in a description envrionment
=>
=>          Label: Here is one nested and indented.  The lines are
=>                very long to make a paragraph.
=>
=>          Label: Yep one more.
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=>                   Label:  and even one more level down in the
=>                           description environment.
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=>  Label: Back to the top.        
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=>This would be the the report style using LateX 2.09.
=>
=>
=>Thank you for your attention!

This should automatically happen.  Here is an example that does
exactly what you want.

\documentstyle [12pt] {report}
\begin{document}

\begin{description}
\item[Label:]Here is the main item in a description envrionment

\begin{description}
        \item[Label:]Here is one nested and indented.  The lines are
              very long to make a paragraph.

        \item[Label:]Yep one more.
\begin{description}
                 \item[Label:] and even one more level down in the
                         description environment.
\end{description}
\end{description}
\item[Label:]Back to the top.
\end{description}

\end{document}