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8 Mar
2017
8 Mar
'17
1:40 a.m.
On 8 Mar 2017, at 01:04, Alan Braslau
wrote: The two systems are very different, MKII being "frozen" and MKIV having evolved in some ways significantly. It is not a question of TeX engines, but rather of entire systems.
ok, that makes sense.
But it sounds like you want to be using an itemize or enumeration rather than a description.
well i do need the description as the items are not numbered or annotated in a sequential way. i could use a \sym{tag} but then the available space is constant, and not variable as is when using description. Or is there a better (simpler) way? .F