How can I center/right/left align text in LyX? In Microsoft Word, I can just click the
3 buttons on the toolbar.
[Tex/LaTex] Aligning text in LyX: left/center/right
horizontal alignmentlyx
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The alignment of the columns of an align environment is fixed. It's like rl for each pair of columns. That's why the toolbar buttons are disabled.
If you would like to have different adjustment, you could use an array environment, especially if you don't need numbered rows.
However, you may change the alignment by placing the & symbol differently. This might be better with alignat instead of align.
Using \hfill won't necessarily result in the middle text being centered, as the example below demonstrates. If you want to place the text in such a way that the middle text is really centered, I would suggest using \parboxes, as the example shows (I used the \lipsum[2] command to generate text to be used only as a reference):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newcommand\textbox[1]{%
\parbox{.333\textwidth}{#1}%
}
\begin{document}
\noindent Left longer sample simple text\hfill Center?\hfill Right
\noindent\textbox{Left longer sample text\hfill}\textbox{\hfil Center\hfil}\textbox{\hfill Right}
\noindent\lipsum[2]
\end{document}
If this construct will be used many times, it would be better to have a command; something along the lines of the \textline command whose definition and use are illustrated in the following example (in which I also incorporated egreg's suggestion about \raggedleft, \centering and \raggedright):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newcommand\textline[4][t]{%
\par\smallskip\noindent\parbox[#1]{.333\textwidth}{\raggedright\texttt{+}#2}%
\parbox[#1]{.333\textwidth}{\centering#3}%
\parbox[#1]{.333\textwidth}{\raggedleft\texttt{#4}}\par\smallskip%
}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[2]
\textline[t]{555\,555\,555}{Some Name}{user@some.site.com}
\lipsum[2]
\end{document}
Best Answer
Horizontal alignment is associated with a paragraph style in LyX. Select the paragraph, click
button in the toolbar) and choose one of the Alignment options:
Edit>Paragraph Settings...(or click theClick OK or Apply for the selection to take effect. Checking Immediate Apply allows one to toggle and visualize the difference between selected options.
For inserting horizontal fill (or
\hfill; which also leads to a flush left and flush right formatting on the same line), you followInsert>Formatting>Horizontal Space...and for the Spacing chooseHorizontal Fill:Upon clicking OK, your document will show the horizontal fill as a stretchable dotted line which shrinks/expands to fit the window
and eventually typesets/compiles to
A similar output would have been obtain through the insertion of "TeX code":