Re: Nested decription lists

[Paul A. Rubin via lyx-users]

On 1/7/22 9:59 PM, Anthony Macks wrote:

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@lists.lyx.org <mailto:lyx-users@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.



I have a solution below that is workable.



Anthony

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. 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?

Can you post an MWE of a command that you don't think is working as expected?

Paul

Hi Paul,

I have attached an MWE and its output.


Anthony

I think that I do not have a full grasp of the options and their correct use. To use a \command inside description, do I need to use it only in \setlist in my Preamble.

This may have been answered elsewhere in the thread, but just to be safe, I'm attaching a tweaked copy of your MWE that I think does what you want. The key is that the command \normalfont has to be flagged as LaTeX code (aka ERT). Otherwise LyX translates "\" to "\textbackslash". To get the modified version, I just selected the \normalfont command and hit ctrl+L.

Paul

Description Nesting Options-1.lyx
Description: application/lyx

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