horizontal alignmentvertical alignment
I want to have the following text alignment and I don't want to use any "two column" and table because an environment I use doesn't support them. 🙁
The text format looks like the picture below. Basically I want to split a line in the middle, and for a line of text there will be 2 parts: the 1st part is on the left and the 2nd part is on the right. However, there are some lines which have long text and I don't want to split them to two parts, thus they will not split.
Thanks a lot for help!
The following code repackages the columns as set by multicols, centre aligning the middle columns and aligning the right hand column flush right. It works for paragraphs as well as single lines, but would fail if there is any extra inter-line material (such as floats or specials).
\documentclass{article}
\textheight.3\textheight
\pdfpageheight2\textheight
\usepackage{multicol}
\makeatletter
\def\maybe@reverse@columns{%
\count@\mult@rightbox
\rejustifybox{\hskip 0pt \@plus 1filll\unhbox\z@\unskip}%
\advance\count@4
\rejustifybox{\hskip 0pt \@plus 1filll\unhbox\z@\unskip\hskip 0pt \@plus 1filll}%
}
\def\rejustifybox#1{%
\@tempdimb\ht\count@
\global\setbox\@ne\vbox{}%
\setbox\z@\vbox{\hbox{\vrule depth 123sp} \unvbox\count@
\loop
\setbox\z@\lastbox
\@tempskipa\lastskip\unskip
\@tempcnta\lastpenalty\unpenalty
\ifdim\dp\z@=123sp
\else
\global\setbox\@ne\vbox{%
\penalty\@tempcnta
\vskip\@tempskipa
\ifvoid\z@\else
\hbox to \wd\z@{#1}%
\fi
\unvbox\@ne}%
\repeat
\global\setbox\count@\box\@ne
\global\ht\count@\@tempdimb
}}
\makeatother
\def\a{One two three four five six seven. }
\def\b{\a Red green blue yellow. }
\def\c{\a\b\a\b}
\def\x{Oxford\par London\par Manchester\par Birmingham\par Nottingham\par Liverpool\par Cambridge\par}
\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{3}\raggedright
1\c\c\par
2 Text goes here. \c\a\c\par
3 \x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x\x
\end{multicols}
\end{document}
You can try using m{...} type columns (redefining \tabularxcolumn you can change the default p{...} type used by tabularx):
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,headsepline]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\renewcommand{\tabularxcolumn}[1]{m{#1}}
\begin{document}
\noindent\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{| m{0.25\linewidth}| X |}
\hline
\LaTeX & Is a document markup language and document preparation system for
the \TeX\ typesetting program.\\
\hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}
Best Answer
You can define a command that manually puts its first argument into the "left column" and the second argument into the "right column.