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Latex: description enviroment

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From: le tran
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:24
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I need your help in Latex. I want to do

\begin{descrition}
\item[ this]     Description of 'this'
\item{ is]     Description of 'is'
\item{ a]     Description of 'a'
\item{ test]     Description of 'test'
\end{descrition}

As you can see, the margins between the items and the descriptions vary.
I want these margins to be fixed, like this 

\begin{descrition}
\item[ this]     Description of 'this'
\item{ is]       Description of 'is'
\item{ a]        Description of 'a'
\item{ test]     Description of 'test'
\end{descrition}

This can be done if I used the tabular enviroment, but my description
list is longer than one page, and the tabular enviroment does not allow
the page breaking in a middle of the tabular enviroment.

Please send your suggestion to: totran@glider.lerc.nasa.gov

Thanks in advance.

Le
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