[Tex/LaTex] hfill in itemize environment

itemize

What is the correct/direct way to produce the following?
It's like a table with no borders but the first column is itemized
or should I use minipage. I also experimented with hfill but with no luck?

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The good old tabbing environment can be very handy here!

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{pifont}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\newcommand{\titem}{\ding{226}\quad}

\begin{document}

\begin{itemize}
\item \begin{tabbing}
Logical Operators\qquad \= greater or equal\qquad \= \kill
Matlab uses \emph{mostly} standard relational operators \\
\titem equal              \> $==$ \\
\titem \textbf{not} equal \> $\sim=$ \\
\titem greater than       \> $>$ \\
\titem less than          \> $<$ \\
\titem greater or equal   \> $>=$ \\
\titem less or equal      \> $<=$
\end{tabbing}

\item \begin{tabbing}
Logical Operators\qquad \= greater or equal\qquad \= \kill
Logical Operators   \> elementwise \> short-circuit (scalars) \\
\titem And          \> \&          \> \&\& \\
\titem Or           \> $|$         \> $||$ \\
\titem \textbf{Not} \> $\sim$  \\
\titem Xor          \> xor  \\
\titem All true     \> all \\
\titem Any true     \> any
\end{tabbing}

\end{itemize}

\end{document}

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Add color, if you want to.

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The answer would be to put the list inside a minipage or parbox, but that is not really fun. Here is another solution with enumitem using the before and after keys and the command \tablistcommand: Use tabitemize when you have a cell with a list only, and clear out the before key with text preceding the list. The lines are correctly aligned.

\documentclass[landscape]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{booktabs,array,enumitem,ragged2e}

\newcommand{\tablistcommand}{%
  \leavevmode\par\vspace{-\baselineskip}%
}

\newlist{tabitemize}{itemize}{1}
\setlist[tabitemize]{%
  leftmargin = *               ,
  label      = \textbullet     ,
  nosep                        ,
  before     = \tablistcommand ,
  after      = \tablistcommand
}

\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{table}
  \centering
  \caption{Wide Itemized Mixed Table}
  \label{tab:wide-item-tbl}
  \begin{tabular}{@{}l*{4}{>{\RaggedRight}p{2in}}@{}}
    \toprule
    \textbf{BSL} & \textbf{Agents} & \textbf{Practices}
    & \textbf{Primary barriers} & \textbf{Secondary barriers} \\
    \midrule
    1 & Not known to consistently cause diseases in healthy adults
      & standard microbiological practices
      & \begin{tabitemize}
        \item no primary barriers required,
        \item  PPE
        \end{tabitemize}
      & bench and sink required \tabularnewline
    2 & \begin{tabitemize}
        \item Agents associated with human diseases
        \item Routes of transmission include per-cutaneous injury,
          ingestion, mucous membrane exposure
        \end{tabitemize}
      & BSL-1 practice plus:
        \begin{tabitemize}[before=]
        \item limited access
        \item Biohazard warning signs
        \item ``Sharps'' precautions
        \item Biosafety manual defining any needed waste
          decontamination or medical surveillance polices
        \end{tabitemize}
      & Primary barriers:
        \begin{tabitemize}[before=]
        \item BSCs or other physical containment devices used for all
          manipulations of agents that cause splashes or aerosols of
          infectious materials
        \item PPE: Laboratory coats, gloves, face and eye protection,
          as needed
        \end{tabitemize}
      & BSL-1 plus:
        \begin{tabitemize}[before=]
        \item Autoclave available
        \end{tabitemize}\tabularnewline
    \bottomrule
  \end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}

EDIT

It really depends on your use case, but I would probably make a table like this in a document. If you have a very long table, it would make more sense to rotate it.

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{%
  booktabs,tabularx,enumitem,ragged2e,%
  caption,lipsum,showframe,geometry}

\captionsetup[table]{%
  format        = plain        ,
  font          = footnotesize ,
  labelfont     = bf           , 
  justification = centerlast   , 
  labelsep      = period       ,
  position      = top          ,
  aboveskip     = 5pt          ,
  belowskip     = 0pt
}

\newcommand{\tablistcommand}{%
  \leavevmode\par\vspace{-\baselineskip}%
}

\newlist{tabitemize}{itemize}{1}
\setlist[tabitemize]{%
  leftmargin = *               ,
  label      = \textbullet     ,
  nosep                        ,
  before     = \tablistcommand ,
  after      = \tablistcommand
}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]

\begin{table}[!h]
  \caption{Wide Itemized Mixed Table}
  \label{tab:wide-item-tbl}
  \footnotesize
  \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{}l*{4}{>{\RaggedRight}X}@{}}
    \toprule
    \scriptsize BSL & \scriptsize Agents & \scriptsize Practices
    & \scriptsize Primary barriers & \scriptsize Secondary barriers \\
    \midrule
    1 & Not known to consistently cause diseases in healthy adults
      & standard microbiological practices
      & \begin{tabitemize}
        \item no primary barriers required,
        \item  PPE
        \end{tabitemize}
      & bench and sink required \tabularnewline\addlinespace
    2 & \begin{tabitemize}
        \item Agents associated with human diseases
        \item Routes of transmission include per-cutaneous injury,
          ingestion, mucous membrane exposure
        \end{tabitemize}
      & BSL-1 practice plus:
        \begin{tabitemize}[before=]
        \item limited access
        \item Biohazard warning signs
        \item ``Sharps'' precautions
        \item Biosafety manual defining any needed waste
          decontamination or medical surveillance polices
        \end{tabitemize}
      & Primary barriers:
        \begin{tabitemize}[before=]
        \item BSCs or other physical containment devices used for all
          manipulations of agents that cause splashes or aerosols of
          infectious materials
        \item PPE: Laboratory coats, gloves, face and eye protection,
          as needed
        \end{tabitemize}
      & BSL-1 plus:
        \begin{tabitemize}[before=]
        \item Autoclave available
        \end{tabitemize}\tabularnewline
    \bottomrule
  \end{tabularx}
\end{table}

\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

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