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two-column itemized lists?

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From: JE Pelkey
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 22:55
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We are writing a user's manual and want to have section of two
column output where we describe an action on the left and
describe what the user sees on the right.

So, we want some output that looks basically like what I've shown
below.  I want the items that correspond to each other on the left and 
right to line up horizontally with each other and I want them to
line wrap like in paragraph mode.  Preferably, I should also be
able to itemize the columns (or at least bullet item them).

Does anyone know how to do this in general?  I've played with
tabular, parbox, minipages, itemize, and can't get anything that
looks right.

Here's the type of thing I want:



Left column - item 1         |     Right column - item 1
may be multi-line            |
                             |
                             |
Left column - item 2         |     Right column - item 2 - lines up with 
                             |     Left column - item 2
                             |
                             |
Left column - item 3         |     Right column - item 3
another multi-line           |
                             |
                             |

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Subject: two-column itemized lists?
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Date: 3 Nov 92 22:55:24 GMT
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