alignmenthorizontal alignment
I'm looking to format some text in the same way as showed in the image (highlighted part) where the text is right-aligned and the next line starts in the same horizontal position as the previous one. I tried to use \hspace but didn't work as expected.
Thanks for the help.
This seems like a crude way of doing it, but it is fairly straight forward:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array,graphicx,lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/{array,graphicx,lipsum}
\begin{document}
\noindent\begin{tabular}{@{}p{.5\textwidth}@{}>{\raggedleft\arraybackslash}p{.5\textwidth}@{}}
& My name \\ & My street \\ & My city \\ & My postal code \\
\smash{\includegraphics[height=5\normalbaselineskip]{example-image-a}} & My country
\end{tabular}
\lipsum
\end{document}
I've made the height of the image be equivalent to the height of the name/address portion (5 lines or \normalbaselineskips). Inserting the image on the same line as the last entry of your address allows you to use \smash to avoid any vertical adjustment within the tabular.
Some components involved in the solution:
\noindent: Removed the regular paragraph indent inserted when starting a paragraph (note that this happens with the first Lorem ipsum paragraph below the image);@{} in the tabular column specification removes the inter-column spacing inserted usually between adjacent columns like. This space inside a tabular is given by \tabcolsep;>{<stuff>}: This is a directive offered by the array package that inserts <stuff> before the start of the cell. An analogous <{<stuff>} is also provided (but not used) for inserting <stuff> after the end of the cell. I insert \raggedleft to make the cell contents be flush with the right margin. There's also \arraybackslash which is a correction tool when using the > and < directives, re-establishing the functionality of \\;p{.5\textwidth}: Both columns in the tabular are set in paragraph mode/style with a width of .5\textwidth - half the text block width.\smash: removes any vertical height of an object which would otherwise influence the line gap between successive rows in the tabular.\normalbaselineskip: The regular \baselineskip that is used outside the tabular environment is captured in \normalbaselineskip for use inside the tabular, if needed.
I made the image as high as 5 lines, since my personal details spanned 5 lines."ordinary" spaces at the beginning of a line are ignored.
to indent a line by 10cm, start that line with
\noindent\hspace*{10cm}%
xxxx
the \noindent negates the usual paragraph indentation.
the starred \hspace* is not ignored at the beginning of a line.
since you want the distance to be precise, either start the text with
no typed space after the \hspace* or negate the end-of-line character
with a %, as shown here, and start the text on the next line.
Best Answer
SX!
You can achieve that by using a
\parboxor aminipageenvironment. Use\hfillbefore it, in order to achieve your alignment. I used an\fboxadditionally in my MWE to have a frame around the text. The%can be deleted if you want the marked text to move to the next line.edit: In case you have a small box width and long words, you might get big white spaces. To get the usual typesetting behavior inside a
\parbox, one could use\fussyin the beginning of a\parbox. This is the default options latex uses for line breaking. Note, however, this doesn't help with too small boxes, which is the main issue here. You'll getunderfull \hboxoroverfull \hboxwarnings, but you'll get em until you tackled the problem.