From: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
To: "Juan Manuel Macías" <maciaschain@posteo.net>
Cc: orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Dealing with wide labels in description environment
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:37:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zh11b10f.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im7pusjl.fsf@posteo.net> ("Juan Manuel \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Mac\=C3\=AD\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?as\=22's\?\= message of "Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:20:30 +0100")
Hi Juan,
Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:
> Hello,
>
> "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
>
>> I have tried tweaking options such as labelindent and labelwidth in a
>> somewhat haphazard manner with, say,
>>
>> #+attr_latex: :options [labelindent=0pt, labelwidth=10ex]
>>
>> but most of my attempts seem to have the main effect of just shifting
>> the whole list to the right without right-justifying the labels.
>
> The question is more on the side of LaTeX, and the enumitem package
> (which you must have loaded for those options. See:
> https://www.ctan.org/pkg/enumitem). For the effect you are looking for
> you can try this (for horizontal lengths, it is better to use 'em' than
> 'ex):
Yes, of course - using Org for a decade so or has helped me avoid and thus
forget about certain LaTeX details.
> #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{enumitem}
>
> #+attr_latex: :options
> [labelindent=0em,itemindent=0em,align=right,labelwidth=10em,labelsep=.5em,leftmargin=15.5em]
> - short label :: this looks fine
> - very annoying overly long label :: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing
> elit. Donec hendrerit tempor tellus. Donec pretium posuere tellus. Proin quam nisl,
> tincidunt et, mattis eget, convallis nec, purus. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis
> dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Nulla posuere. Donec vitae dolor. Nullam
> tristique diam non turpis. Cras placerat accumsan nulla. Nullam rutrum. Nam vestibulum
> accumsan nisl.
Thank, that's what I needed - 'leftmargin' seems to be the main thing
that was missing.
Gruß
Loris
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2021-01-22 9:20 Dealing with wide labels in description environment Loris Bennett
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