Force line break inside a definition list in PDF output

[pprw]

I would like to force a line break inside a definition list (Extension: definition_lists) after each term. Currently, the pdf (LaTeX) output starts the definition in the same line than the the term (which is not the case in html output).

I use this syntax for the definition list.

Term 1

:   Definition 1

Term 2

:   Definition 2

Any idea of the best way to do this?

[badumont]

This may not be the cleanest way to achieve it, but adding this to header-includes works: \renewcommand*\descriptionlabel[1]{% \hspace\labelsep \hbox to \dimexpr\hsize-\leftmargin-\itemindent-\labelsep{\normalfont\bfseries #1\hfill}% } It supposes that labels never span across lines (which is coherent with the concept of a description list in my opinion).

[pprw]

Thanks. it works!

[jgm]

I tend to use the enumitem package for this. In the preamble, e.g.,

\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist[description]{
  partopsep=0pt,
  topsep=6pt,
  itemsep=6pt,
  parsep=0pt,
  font=\normalfont\itshape,
  leftmargin=\parindent,
  itemindent=0pt,
  listparindent=0pt,
  labelwidth=0pt,
  style=nextline,
}

There are lots of things you can adjust to your taste -- see the enumitem documentation.