[Tugindia] making a resume with latex

[E. Krishnan]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Jagadeesh Bhaskar wrote:

> i got one more question how to create a format like the following
> 
> abcd xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>      xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>      xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> efgh xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>      xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> cant use \item[] as it will make abcd, efgh etc. bold. how can i acheive 
> this??

Seems you are using the "desription" environment, which by default makes 
bold labels. To change this, simpley add te line

	\renewcommand{\descriptionlabel}[1]{\textrm{#1}}

before the \begin{description} command.
-- 
Krishnan