[texhax] tabular and page breaks

[George Georgalis]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 04:55:47PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
>
>I'm figuring out how to use a list for this, but I see no examples
>of this type and my syntax is not there yet...
>

anyway, this is what I came up with. it's an inherently broken
way to do it because my "label" is actually the item which happens
to have a parabox next to it. (nb label is attached the item
paragraph, but I need "label" attached to the the left margin and
a paragraph attached to the label)


\begin{flushleft}
\begin{list}
 {}
 {
        \setlength{\leftmargin}{1.0in}
        \setlength{\labelwidth}{1.0in}
        \setlength{\itemindent}{0in}
        \setlength{\listparindent}{0in}
        \setlength{\labelsep}{1em}
 }

\item[word one] abc abcd abcde abc abcd abcde abc abcd abcde abc abcd abcde abc abcd abcde abc abcd abcde abc abcd abcde
\item[word two] abcd abcde abc abcd abcde abc abcd abcde abc abcd abcde abc abcd abcde abc abcd abcde abc abcd abcde abc 
\item[word three] abcde abc abcd abcde abc abcd abcde abc abcd abcde abc abcd abcde abc abcd abcde abc abcd abcde abc abcd 

\end{list}
\end{flushleft}


the problem is the label's are being right justified when they
should be left. labelwidth seems up against the left margin, but I
see no way to make label "raggedright" eg attach the label to the
left margin (and I spent far too much time searching doc, source,
books, and websites to get this far) cf page 113 Latex A Doc Prep
System, Lamport, 1994.


// George

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