Make simple multiline Glossary

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I would like to make a simple glossary that looks sort of like this:

That allows me to make tabs that stay tabs even if the break a line. so that it looks like an invisible table, yet still does regular line breaks.
What would be the easiest way to do this?

Vincent · Accepted Answer

The description environment is made for that. The lengths used in the environment, such as the label's width, can be changed easily using the enumitem package (see the documentation for details).

documentclass{article}
usepackage{enumitem}
setlist[description]{
    labelwidth=22mm, 
    labelsep=0mm, 
    leftmargin=22mm
}
begin{document}
section*{Glossary}
begin{description}
    item[Dog] An animal that makes dog noises. Some more text to see if the line will break as it should. 
    item[Cat] An animal that makes cat noises
    item[Mouse] An animal that makes neither dog nor cat noises
    item[Key] Not even an animal
end{description}
end{document}

js bibra · Answer

documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{report}

usepackage{tabto,enumitem}
usepackage{lipsum}

newcommand*{mytab}[1]{tabto{4.5cm}parbox[t]{%
        dimexprtextwidth-4.5cm-labelwidth-labelsep}{#1}}
begin{document}
    Glossary
    begin{itemize}
        item[] Dog mytab{An texttt{animal} that makes dog noises and irritates me no end }
        item[] Cat mytab{An texttt{animal} that makes cat noises }

end{itemize}

end{document}

Make simple multiline Glossary

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