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%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example A-1-9 on page 850.
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%% Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
%%
%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%
\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{calc}
\newenvironment{altDescription}[1][\quad]%
{\begin{list}{}{%
\renewcommand\makelabel[1]{\hfil\textsf{##1}}%
\settowidth\labelwidth{\makelabel{#1}}%
\setlength\leftmargin{\labelwidth+\labelsep}}}
{\end{list}}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{altDescription}
\item[First] This is a short term with text that wraps.
\item[Long term] This is a long term.
\item[Even longer term] A very long term.
\end{altDescription}
\begin{altDescription}[Even longer term]
\item[First] This is a short term with text that wraps.
\item[Long term] This is a long term.
\item[Even longer term] A very long term.
\end{altDescription}
\end{document}
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