How to add bullets to description lists?

Question

I would like to add a bullet in front of every \item[], i.e.

Hello,
\begin{description}
 \item[bla] blubb
\end{description}

becomes

Hello,
bla blubb

I quickly found how to remove them from itemize statements, but not the inverse. So, I would like to know how to prepend every description's item label with something.

Answer 1

It would probably be better if you create your own list type using enumitem's \newlist feature.

If you don't want to do so, here's a hack, but it is somehow maintainable: Use the enumitem package and do the following:

\begin{description}[font=$\bullet$\scshape\bfseries]

That is, you encode the special stuff in the thing that sould be your font, but it works fine, as long as the $\bullet (or equivalent) is in front of the actual description label.

Answer 2

One quick way is to do it manually for each bullet:

\begin{description}
  \item[$\cdot$ bla1] item 1
  \item[$\bullet$ bla2] item 2
  \item[$\ast$ bla3] item 3
\end{description}

This produces: