2

A. some heading: Text

B. another heading: more Text

C. yet another head: lots of Tex

I tried:

\begin{description}[\Alph]     %[font=$\Alph\ $\itshape]
    \item[some heading] Text
\end{description}
Community
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Dr.PB
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    What is 'Head' here? This is unclear. Normally I would say an enumerate is much better than description here...It looks like you're using enumitem already... –  Sep 09 '16 at 17:06
  • yes, but I don't know, how to do both: description+numbering. Latex needs a one in all package :( – Dr.PB Sep 09 '16 at 17:13
  • Like the fellow environment itemize, description is not numbered. It can be faked, but most times enumerate is easier, in my opinion -- but you were quickly choosing another answer before clearifying the question such that others had a chance to improve their post ;-) –  Sep 09 '16 at 17:15
  • Please enlighten me in this case with enumerate@ChristianHupfer – Dr.PB Sep 09 '16 at 17:19
  • You're question was totally unclear, so in the aftermath of it there's no use in providing an enumerate - based answer, that's why I deleted my answer. –  Sep 09 '16 at 17:28

3 Answers3

4

I'm not sure whether the numbers in Head1, Head2, ... were supposed to be actual numbers or just example of headers, as in first header, second header, and so on.

Output

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Code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\newcounter{itemalph}
\setcounter{itemalph}{1}
\newcommand\xitem[1]{%
    \item[\Alph{itemalph}.~#1:]
    \stepcounter{itemalph}
}

\begin{document}
\begin{description}[font=\normalfont\itshape]
    \xitem{Head1} description
    \xitem{Head2} description
    \xitem{Head3} description
\end{description}
\end{document}
Alenanno
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1

I define an enumdescription environment which does the job:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{etoolbox}

\newcounter{enumdescr}
\makeatletter
\newenvironment{enumdescription}{%
\setcounter{enumdescr}{0}%
\pretocmd{\descriptionlabel}{\refstepcounter{enumdescr}\enit@format\Alph{enumdescr}.~}{}{}
\apptocmd{\descriptionlabel}{:}{}{}
\setlist[description]{font=\normalfont\itshape}
\description}%
{\enddescription}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\begin{enumdescription}
  \item[Head1] description
  \item[Head2] description
  \item[Head3] description
\end{enumdescription}

\end{document}

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Bernard
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0

This snippet should work: 

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\begin{description}
    \item[A. Head1:] Text
    \item[B. Head2:] Text
\end{description}

\end{document}
SteelAngel
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