How do I center a bullet/numbered/description list horizontally?

Question

Say I want the description environment in

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
Some text\\
some more
\begin{center}
center
\end{center}
\begin{description}
  \item[desc1] text1
  \item[desc2] text2 text2
  \item[desc3] text3 text3 text3
\end{description}
other text
\end{document}

do be horizontally centered, as a whole, i.e. the longest item should be horizontally centered in the page. Clearly, if one of the entries is longer than \textwidth, then it would be back the original position.

Enclosing it in the center environment doesn't seem to work.

I thought \hfill would come handy, but I haven't managed to write a solution using it.

I guess another strategy could consist in computing the width of the environment being typeset, and using that as the width of an enclosing minipage, or something.

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I see here using tabular as an alternative is proposed, but I was looking for a cleaner solution.

Answer 1

You can put the description in a varwidth-box (which produces a minpage and calculates it's width):

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{varwidth}

\begin{document}
Some text\\
some more
\begin{center}
center
\end{center}

\begin{center}
  \begin{varwidth}{\textwidth}
    \begin{description}
      \item[desc1] text1
      \item[desc2] text2 text2
      \item[desc3] text3 text3 text3
    \end{description}
  \end{varwidth}
\end{center}

other text
\end{document}