[Tex/LaTex] \hfill doesnt work on new line

cvresumespacing

I am using res class to prepare my CV.
My code is

Secured All-India Rank 2480 in Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) among over $500,000$ applicants\hfill{\em(2010)}\\
Secured 2488th rank in All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) among over $1,000,000$ applicants\hfill{\em(2010)}\\

and the output is as follows.
I want the First Sentence similiar to the Second Sentence where the year is at the end of the line.

The problem that i have identified is second line of the first sentence is empty except for the year and hence it is not being pushed to the right(by \hfill)
If suppose the code is

Secured All-India Rank 2480 in Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) among over $500,000$ applicants random extra characters \hfill{\em(2010)}\\
Secured 2488th rank in All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) among over $1,000,000$ applicants\hfill{\em(2010)}\\

then the output is

Are there any specific commands which can solve this problem.(This is my first time using LaTeX/Tex)

Best Answer

This works

\rule{\textwidth}{.5pt} \strut\hfill test

as opposed to

\rule{\textwidth}{.5pt} \hfill test

What happens is that the \hfill is ignored by LaTeX when it is the first thing in a line (same as \hspace).

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[Tex/LaTex] res.cls hfill addresses

The class res.cls is somewhat old and it is not flexible; I would suggest you to consider using a more modern class to typeset your CV (See Writing Applications for a Job / CV). To solve your particular problem, you can use \parboxes:

\documentclass{res}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\begin{resume}
\name{ABC}
\address{\parbox[t]{.3333\textwidth}{\hfill}\parbox[t]{.3333\textwidth}{\centering email@email.com}\parbox[t]{.3333\textwidth}{\raggedleft (555) 555-5555}}
\opening
\lipsum[4]
\end{resume}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] \hfill and \hspace do not work

The images are not cropped and have white margins. For example, Deviation_distribution.eps has the bounding box:

%%BoundingBox:    44   238   549   604

The real bounding box can be calculated via ghostscript:

$ gs -sDEVICE=bbox -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE Deviation_distribution.eps

The result is:

%%BoundingBox: 49 246 493 585
%%HiResBoundingBox: 49.936780 246.815992 492.839985 584.243982

The white margins are:

left: 49bp - 44bp = 5bp
bottom: 246bp - 238bp = 8bp
right: 549bp - 493bp = 56bp
top: 604bp - 585bp = 19bp

The .eps files can be fixed by replacing the %%BoundingBox with the result of ghostscript's bbox device. Or the program epstool --copy --bbox can be used.

In case of PDF files, the images can be cropped with pdfcrop.

With cropped images, you can then clean up the code (e.g. something like 1.1\textwidth will usually cause overfull \hbox warnings).

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