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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 4-1-5 on page I-257 in "Customizing the \protect \nxLenv {description} list environment".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{147.0pt}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\renewcommand\descriptionlabel[1]%
{\hspace{\labelsep}\textsf{\bfseries #1}}
%StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{description}
\item[An item] Its description with enough text
to fill more than one line in the example.
\item[Another item] Now just two lines of text.
\end{description}
\end{document}
