In plain text, this is what I want to do:
Explanation: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus volutpat eu orci vitae eleifend.
Praesent sed orci commodo, venenatis neque vel, pulvinar velit.
Mauris ullamcorper tellus sed quam pellentesque, vitae sagittis nisl dapibus.
update
If hspace{5cm}
fit the length of the word "Explanation: " and if hspace
worked in the enumerate environment, the following would be what I want my document to look like:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
\item 1
answer
\item 2
explanation: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus volutpat eu orci vitae eleifend.\\ \hspace {5cm}Praesent sed orci commodo, venenatis neque vel, pulvinar velit.\\ \hspace {5cm}Mauris ullamcorper tellus sed quam pellentesque, vitae sagittis nisl dapibus.
\item 3
answer
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}
Basically, imagine
Explanation: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus volutpat eu orci vitae eleifend.
Praesent sed orci commodo, venenatis neque vel, pulvinar velit.
Mauris ullamcorper tellus sed quam pellentesque, vitae sagittis nisl dapibus.
is in an enumerate environment.
This is what I want:
enumitem
package for list management? Do you know of tabular environments liketabularx
? – Werner Sep 4 '13 at 17:35align
tag, as that is specifically for math.horizontal-alignment
might work, but it's really the indentation (\hangindent
would be appropriate if this were plain tex) that's involved here. – barbara beeton Sep 4 '13 at 17:48