Global changes to description titles?

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Tyler.Hildebrand
Member

Hi everyone,

Is there a simple way to make global changes to the formatting of description titles? In the report class, the default is for description titles to be bold. So, for instance, typing

\begin{description} \item[Title] (definition goes here) \end{description}

will make the word `Title' bold. I'd rather have it be italic, but I'd prefer to avoid having to go through my entire dissertation to make these changes manually. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Posted 1 year ago #
Kevin Klement
Key Master
If you want them to be italic but not bold, you might try putting this in the preamble:
```
 \usepackage{enumitem}
 \setdescription{font=\itshape\mdseries}
```
See the enumitem package documentation for more info.
Posted 1 year ago #
Tyler.Hildebrand
Member

Great solution. Thanks, Kevin!

Posted 1 year ago #

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