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I would like to make horizontal lines at each side of some text. I tried to use \rule, but I want the total lenght (text + line) to be the same (and user defined) for several line-text, so the line lenght depends on the text lenght. Example :
Is there a package or a native LaTeX command to do the trick ?
There are several possibilities to achieve a vertical line separating two columns of text. The following MWE shows two of them:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{multicols}{2}
\lipsum[1]
\end{multicols}
\noindent\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}X|X@{}}
\lipsum[2] & \lipsum[2]
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}
The first example uses the multicol packge and its \columnseprule to set up two columns that are automatically separated by a vertical line. In this example the text is automatically equally distributed between the two columns.
The second example uses tabularx. Here you have to distribute the contents yourself.
To print a text in two langugages in two columns, you might also be interested in the paracol package as shown in the below MWE. You can use the switchcolumn command to insert the follwing text into the other column. Using the starred variant, you can synchronize columns to let paragraphs in both columns start in the same line. Additionally, the paracol environment can spread over several pages.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{paracol}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt}
\setlength{\columnsep}{3em}
\begin{document}
\begin{paracol}{2}
\lipsum[1]
\switchcolumn
\lipsum[2]
\switchcolumn*
\lipsum[4]
\switchcolumn
\lipsum[3]
\end{paracol}
\end{document}
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