Nested decription lists

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 1/7/22 6:53 PM, Anthony Macks wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 at 10:25, Paul A. Rubin via lyx-users 
> <lyx-users at lists.lyx.org <mailto: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
Can you post an MWE of a command that you don't think is working as 
expected?

Paul

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