Changing style of latex description lists.

Question

This should be an easy question for someone out there. I have a description list

\begin{description}
\item[Name:]  Halpo
\item[Email Address:] [email protected]
\item[Address:]  1234 Ivy Ln \\ Springfield, USA
\end{description}

It comes back as

Name: Halpo

Email Address: [email protected]

Address: 1234 Ivy Ln

 Springfield, USA

This is for an official document that has style requirements. The First thing is how do I turn off the bold? second how do I have all the text line up with the item labels and still be left justified?

Answer 1

For a hack, do \item[\rm Name:].

Answer 2

If you \usepackage{enumitem} you may get what you like:

\begin{description}[style=multiline,leftmargin=3cm,font=\normalfont]
\item[Name:]  Halpo
\item[Email Address:] [email protected]
\item[Address:]  1234 Ivy Ln \\ Springfield, USA
\end{description}

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