%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 3-3-5 on page 131.
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
%%
%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\renewcommand\descriptionlabel[1]%
         {\hspace{\labelsep}\textsf{#1}}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{description}
\item[A.] text inside list,  text inside list,
      text inside list, more text inside list;
\item[B.] text inside list,  text inside list,
      text inside list, more text inside list;
\end{description}
\end{document}
