Nested decription lists

[Anthony Macks]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 at 10:25, Paul A. Rubin via lyx-users <
lyx-users at lists.lyx.org> wrote:

> On 1/7/22 5:09 PM, Anthony Macks via lyx-users wrote:
>
> Dear LyX users,
>
> I am nesting description lists and want to justify the text within the
> nested list.
>
> I have attached my MWE, output and a copy of what I want the output to
> look like.
>
> I am using the module "Customisable Lists (enumitem)." with the article
> class. When I right click on the description label, an options box is
> produced. However, the options to go in the box (I get the options from the
> enumitem package) are not producing the desired effect.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Anthony
>
> The attached solution is horribly hack-ish, but I think does what you
> want. You need to use the "style=multiline" option and juggle the left
> margin settings a bit. Also, LaTeX wants to align the indented description
> term with the start of the definition of an unindented term, so I had to
> put some custom line spacing in to drag the indented items back to where
> you want them. There's probably a more elegant solution to be found
> somewhere.
>
> Paul
>


Thanks Paul.

Ideally, it would be nice if the labelwidth could be determined based upon
the width of the longest label. But my skills are not yet up to that.

I have a solution below that is workable.

However, I have done a little more exploring with the description options
(right-clicking or Alt A 1). Not all of them seem to work as they should.
In particular, the options which require a \command don't seem to work. Am
I missing something?

Anthony
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