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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 4-1-31 on page I-278 in "Styling description-like lists".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{147.0pt}
\sloppy
%StartShownPreambleCommands
 \usepackage{enumitem}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
 \begin{description}
 \item[Short label]
      and some text to fill two lines.
   \item[A much longer label]
      to compare and some text to fill more than
      one line.
 \end{description}

 \begin{description}[style=unboxed]
   \item[A much longer label]
      to compare and some text to fill more than
      one line.
 \end{description}
\end{document}