[Tex/LaTex] How to reduce space after the end of a tabbing environment

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In my resume, for each of my jobs I have a tabbing environment set up for the name of the company, the city, and the dates for the job. I then would like to have the description of the job immediately following. The problem is LaTeX is adding a big space after my \end{tabbing}. I have been working around the problem using negative vspace commands, but this is sloppy and I'm sure there must be a better way to do it. Any ideas?

e.g.

\newcommand{\job}[6] {
  \begin{tabbing}\hspace{2.3in}\= \hspace{2in}\= \kill 
  {\bf #1}\>#2\> #3 -- #4 \\ %Company  City  BeginDate -- EndDate 
  {\bf #5: }\end{tabbing} %Position:
  \vspace{-20pt} %there is a bunch of space added by \end{tabbing}
  #6 %job description
}

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I believe the space that is put before and after a tabbing environment is \topsep. (And \partopsep is added when the tabbing environment begins a paragraph.) So depending on your document you could try:

\setlength{\topsep}{0pt}
\setlength{\partopsep}{0pt}

But be warned that if you change that globally it'll change other environments too. (Itemize, etc.) So you could make the definitions local, or just use \topsep as the value for your negative \vspace at the end there.

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The tabbing environment adds \topsep spacing above and below it, and also \partopsep. Define your environment, for example

\newenvironment{nstabbing}
  {\setlength{\topsep}{0pt}%
   \setlength{\partopsep}{0pt}%
   \tabbing}
  {\endtabbing}
...
\begin{document}
...
Some text above
\begin{nstabbing}
  \hspace{4in}\= \kill % set up two tab positions
  \textbf{University}, \textit{City, NW} \> PhD, Physics (2007-2011)
\end{nstabbing}
Methodology and numerical implementation (C++) of methods for
difficult systems

The two parameters will be changed only inside the nstabbing environment; one of course assumes that no list environment will be inside the tabbing.

If the class or the document uses a non zero \parskip (additional white space between paragraphs, the environment's definition might be

\newenvironment{nstabbing}
  {\setlength{\topsep}{-\parskip}%
   \setlength{\partopsep}{0pt}%
   \tabbing}
  {\endtabbing}

[Tex/LaTex] Controlling vertical space within a “tabbing” environment

You can use the optional argument for \\:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabbing}
  \=X \= X \= XXX\= XXX \= XXX\=\kill
  \>\>test\\
  \>\>test\\
  \>\>test\\[1cm]
  \>\>test\\
  \>\>test\\
  \>\>test\\[2ex]
  \>\>test\\
  \>\>test\\
  \>\>test
\end{tabbing}

\end{document}

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