> It's used for specifying how wide the labels will be and is used by LaTeX
> to get all the lists aligned even though the items have different length
> labels. If that makes sense. Usually the width is specified as a series
> of capital M's however the user could alternately just write in the name
> of the longest item label and maybe add an M or two.
Since we are talking about it:
I think it would be nicer if float numbers (representing the number of
"em") could be given at this place. It's a major pain to get a "correct"
label width using letters only if you have a .sty that uses a labelwidth
of 2.7em somewhere.
Andre'
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