[Tex/LaTex] Left and right aligned text boxes

horizontal alignment

I am writing a thesis and at the bottom of the title page, I need to include two participating institutes. So far, I have come up with this (using \parbox, but I cannot figure out how to right align the second block because \begin{flushright} starts a new paragraph and thus adds another line:

\parbox[t][3cm][t]{7cm}{\normalsize Figurative Unit (Optional)\\
Department of Blabla\\
University of Blabla} 
\parbox[t][3cm][t]{7cm}{\normalsize Chair of Mickey Mouse Science\\
Institute of Disneyland Studies\\
FSF Blabla}

This results in:

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As I said, I would like the right text block to be right-aligned to the margin of the page, which is set to 40mm ( \newgeometry{left=40mm,right=40mm,top=30mm} ). In the above example I used absolute distance measures but I assume it could be done more elegantly.

Best Answer

You could use two minipages, like this.

\documentclass{minimal}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\textwidth}
Figurative Unit (Optional)\\
Department of Blabla\\
University of Blabla
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\textwidth}
\begin{flushright}
Chair of Mickey Mouse Science\\
Institute of Disneyland Studies\\
FSF Blabla
\end{flushright}
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

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Simply change where to place \begin{center} and \end{center}:

\documentclass[twoside, a4paper, 11pt]{article}
\title{asdfsadf}
\author{asdfasdf}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\usepackage{booktabs,tabularx}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{amsmath, amssymb}
\usepackage{natbib}
%\def\pgfsysdriver{pgfsys-dvipdfm.def}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\usetikzlibrary{matrix, arrows}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{color}
%\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage{cases}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage[update,prepend]{epstopdf}
%\usepackage{mathpazo}
%\usepackage{eulervm}
%\usepackage{iwona}
\usepackage[pdftex,colorlinks,linkcolor=blue,citecolor=blue]{hyperref}

\setlength{\textwidth}{6.5in}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0in}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{0in}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\parskip}{1ex plus 0.5ex minus 0.2ex}

\linespread{1.5}

\usepackage[top=2.5cm, bottom=2.5cm, left=2cm, right=2cm]{geometry}

\raggedbottom

\everymath{\displaystyle}

\newcommand{\pder}[2][]{\frac{\partial#1}{\partial#2}}

\renewcommand\textfraction{.1}



\begin{document}

\begin{titlepage}
\begin{center}
\textsc{\fontsize{14pt}{0}\selectfont SOMETHING \\ SOMETHING}

\ \\[1.5cm]
\begin{spacing}{2}
{\fontsize{24.88pt}{0}\selectfont SOMETHING \\ SOMETHING}
\end{spacing}
\ \\[1.5cm]
\section*{Acknowledgements}
\end{center}
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\begin{center}
\ \\[6cm]
{\fontsize{17.28pt}{0}\selectfont SOMETHING}
\\[0.5cm]
{\fontsize{14pt}{0}\selectfont SOMETHING \& SOMETHING}
\end{center}
\end{titlepage}


\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Centered text, aligned left

You could use a tabular which aligns the text to the left and is itself centered in the text. This could look like this:

\documentclass{scrreprt}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
 \lipsum[1]
 \begin{center}
  \begin{tabular}{l}
    This is line 1 with some text. \\
    This is line 2 with a slightly different text \\
    Line 3 is completely different and also a bit longer. \\
  \end{tabular}
 \end{center}
\end{document}

The output looks like this:

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