Newsgroups: comp.text
Path: utzoo!utgpu!radio.astro!brian
From: brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca (Brian Glendenning)
Subject: []'s in LaTeX
Message-ID: <1989Feb15.232239.12995@radio.astro.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: marie@lynx.astro.utoronto.ca (Marie Glendenning)
Organization: Astronomy, University of Toronto
Date: Wed, 15-Feb-89 23:22:39 EST

I am experiencing a small problem with LaTex and I was wondering if
anyone knew how to solve it.

I am using the \begin{itemize}...\item...\end{itemize} environment
where one of the \item's text contains square brackets ( [] ).  This
is causing that item to appear about 1 inch over to the left from
where it should be when printed.  I have tried \[ without success.
My guess as to the root of the problem is that LaTex is confusing the
{itemize} environment with the {description} environment.

Any and all suggestion on how to work around this problem would be
greatly appreciated.

Marie
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	  Marie Glendenning - Astronomy, University of Toronto
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