🚀 go-pugleaf

I'd like to produce something similar to the ".ip" macro of troff -me
macros with TeX or LaTeX. Plain TeX has a macro "\item{xxx}" which
will do this:

    ITEM this is the paragraph.
         Etc., etc., etc...

  ITEM 1 this is the paragraph.
         Etc., etc., etc...

In LaTeX you can use "\begin{description} ... \item[xxx]" which will
do this:

    ITEM this is the paragraph.
         Etc., etc., etc....

    ITEM 1 this is the paragra-
         ph Etc., etc., etc.

And what I want is this (".ip" does it correctly):

    ITEM this is the paragraph.
         Etc., etc., etc....

    IT   this is the paragraph.
         Etc., etc., etc....

    ITEM 1
         this is the paragraph.
         Etc., etc., etc....

Get it? Headings are alligned vertically as well as the paragraphs. I'm
not a TeX guru yet, so does someone have a TeX macro that will do the
trick. It's a bit trick since you have to know whether or not the
heading will fit in the paragraph indent.... Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!


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