Labels of list items CAPITALIZED + bold style

Question

Is there a possibility to make the labels of description list items always appear CAPITALIZED and bold?

Answer 1

Since you mention capitalizing itemized labels, I'm assuming you're using

\begin{itemize}
  \item[<label>] ...
  \item[<label>] ...
  ...
\end{itemize}

If this is the case, you could just use the description environment, and modify \descriptionlabel - the macro that makes the description environment labels:

\documentclass{article}
\renewcommand*\descriptionlabel[1]{\hspace\labelsep
  \normalfont\bfseries\MakeUppercase{#1}}% Make description environment label bold/CAPITALIZED
\begin{document}
\noindent Here is some text
\begin{description}
  \item[one] Here is some text
  \item[two] Here is some more text
  \item[three] Here is the final item
\end{description}
Here is some more text
\end{document}​

Answer 2

I recommend the package enumitem which allows a lot of settings.

In your case it is simple using the option font

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\noindent Here is some text
\begin{description}[font=\bfseries\MakeUppercase]
  \item[one] Here is some text
  \item[two] Here is some more text
  \item[three] Here is the final item
\end{description}
Here is some more text
\end{document}​

Answer 3

I'm not sure if I understood your inquiry fully, but it seems to me that you're looking to create an enumerated list in which the items are not numbered with digits (1, 2, 3, ...) but with the numbers' English language names, uppercased and boldfaced. Actually, you mention an itemized list, but itemized lists are are not "numbered"; instead, list items are usually "labeled" with symbols such as bullet points, en-dashes, and little upside-down triangles.

If my interpretation is correct, here's an MWE (minimum working example) that uses the enumitem and moreenum packages to achieve your objective. (If you don't want the number strings to be terminated by a period, just leave off the "." after "\NWORDS*".)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem,moreenum}
\setlist[enumerate]{font=\bfseries,label=\NWORDS*.}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
\item Here we go.
\item Where are we going?
\item I think we're lost.
\item I wonna go home.
\item Home at last.
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

Answer 4

The below method is good if you have one or two description lists.

\begin{description}[font=\bfseries\MakeUppercase]
  \item[Random] stuff
  \item[Some more Random] Stuff
  \item[Here again] Some more random stuff
\end{description}

Copying [font=\bfseries\MakeUppercase] to every description list does the job.

However, when you have lot of documents and you want to make changes to all the description lists, below method saves a world of pain.

Use the package enumitem. Below is an MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{xcolor}

\definecolor{VGray}{HTML}{575759}

%%%%%description Level 1%%%%%
\setlist[description,1]{font=\normalfont\scshape\color{VRed}}    

%%%%%description Level 2%%%%%
\setlist[description,2]{font=\normalfont\scshape\color{blue}}

%%%%%description Level 3%%%%%
\setlist[description,3]{font=\normalfont\scshape\color{cyan}}

\begin{document}
    \begin{description}
        \item[random] This is description \emph{Level 1}
        \begin{description}
            \item[some more] This is description \emph{Level 2}
            \begin{description}
                \item[even more] This is description \emph{Level 3}
            \end{description}
        \end{description}
    \end{description}
\end{document}

And the output: