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In article <1992Dec30.172458.5692@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> totran@glider.lerc.nasa.gov (le tran) writes:

   \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.

I tried this once, but when it worked, I found it didn't look good and I threw
it away. But out of memory ...

1) find the longest description, say "gnats and gnus" (Lamport-like :-)
2) \newlength{\mylength}
3) \settowidth{\mylength}{gnats and gnus}
4) \newsavebox{\mybox}

5) \savebox{\mybox}[\mylength][l]{Descr. test}
6) \item[\usebox{\mybox}] type whatever you want ...

Do steps 5 and 6 inside the description environment for every item you have.
Of course you can finetune theses steps, eg. defining a \newcommand for steps
5 and 6 or create a \newenvironment. As I say: I'm typing this from memory ...

I can't remember, but I think simple \makebox commands didn't work for me ...

-Walter
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