How can I ger a line break after the label of a description environment item? I'd like to keep the indentation and the bold face for the item label, but I'd like to have the body of the item in a separate paragraph, because it starts with an itemize environment and indenting that looks really strange.
Adding \\
does not work (error message “no line to end here”), neither does a blank line or \par
(no effect). Even \,\par
has no effect.
Example:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{description}
\item[Animals:]
\begin{itemize}
\item Dog
\item Cat
\item Fish
\end{itemize}
\item[Colors:]
\begin{itemize}
\item Red
\item Green
\item Blue
\end{itemize}
\end{description}
\end{document}
It renders like this:
Best Answer
The insertion of an empty item seems to give a better vertical spacing. One can define a
myitemize
environment that includes this empty item; that will prevent typing it for each description item: