[Tugindia] numbered description environment

[Duvvuri Venu Gopal]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 Radhakrishnan CV wrote :
> >>>>> "Sivaram" == Sivaram Neelakantan <sivaram.neelakandan at wipro.com> writes:
>
>Sorry for the late reply, somehow I missed your mail.
>
>     Sivaram> How do I create a new env. where I can have numbered
>     Sivaram> descriptions?  I want an "enumerated description"
>     Sivaram> environment instead of doing
>
>     Sivaram> \begin{enumerate} \item \textbf(text1} more text \item
>     Sivaram> \textbf(text2} more text \item \textbf(text3} more text
>     Sivaram> \end{enumerate}
>
>     Sivaram> Is there some latex code to do it?
>
>\usepackage{enumerate}
>
>\begin{enumerate}[\bfseries Text 1]
>
>\item first item
>\item second item
>
>\end{enumerate}
>
>Best regards
>
>Radhakrishnan


The above produces like this :

Text 1 : xyz dabbc
Text 2 : abcdefgh
Text 3 : some more text

I suppose it is not what required by Mr. Sivaram. He may want like this :

1.  ABCD some matter
2.  EFGH some other matter
3.  IJKL some more matter

Venu Gopal