alignhorizontal alignment
I am writing my thesis, and trying to move some text to left/center/right in the same line. For example, I want to put Thesis reviewers on the left, Examination Committee in the right, how do I do that?
My code is
\begin{small}
\begin{center}
\textit{Examination Committee}
\\ \vspace{4pt} Prof.
\\ \vspace{4pt} Prof.
\\ \vspace{4pt} Prof.
\end{center}
\begin{center}
\textit{Thesis reviewers}
\\ \vspace{4pt} Prof.
\\ \vspace{4pt} Prof.
\end{center}
\end{small}
My example as below
To duplicate your ASCII art and add a box around it, the following works:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{parskip}% http://ctan.org/pkg/parskip
\usepackage{blindtext}% http://ctan.org/pkg/blindtext
\begin{document}
\newcommand{\mytitles}[2]{% \mytitles{<main>}{<sub>}
\noindent\framebox[\textwidth]{\uppercase{#1}\hfill\uppercase{#2}}%
}
\mytitles{Title}{Subtitle}
\blindtext
\mytitles{A longer title}{And a longer subtitle}
\blindtext
\end{document}
The above MWE provides \mytitles{<main>}{<sub>} for setting the <main> and <sub> titles. It creates a box of size \textwidth but corrects for the double \fboxsep and \fboxrule used to surround the titles (using \framebox rather than \makebox). Since the box has a specific width, \hfill "knows" how far to stretch, pushing either titles flush with the (box) margin.
I've introduced \uppercase, but this is not necessary. You can, of course, also change the font shape, as in your MWE:
\newcommand{\mytitles}[2]{% \mytitles{<main>}{<sub>}
\noindent\makebox[\textwidth]{\textit{#1}\hfill#2}%
}
It would also be possible to add more automated checks of title widths (to avoid overlap or encourage wrapping).
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
Also, one
tabularxwith three columns, the first and last ones are left-aligned to occupy their natural widths and the middle one is anXcolumn-type to swallow the remaining horizontal space.