I have a couple of custom environments that I want to be able to use \hfill
to right align the last column (similar to what {align}
environment does with equation labels}. I attempted to use \hfill
but that seems to be ignored within an align*
, and tabular
environments.
In the case of the tabular, or array like environment (with possibly a large number of columns), I have been adding \multicolumn{5}{r}{}
for the case where the last 5 columns are unused to skip over them (and adjusting appropriately depending on the number of columns). This mostly works, but I have to count how many columns have been used, and if I decide to remove a column I have to adjust this. It would be preferable to not have to do that, and instead use \hfill
to fill up the rest of the line and add the last column.
So, my question is there an easy way to use \hfill
in an environment like tabular, to either get to the lat column, or preferably to the right hand side of the page.
Best Answer
You can use
tabular*
, with an\extracolsep{\fill}
to move the last column to the right margin, as in:That gives you:
(If you don't want it flush with the left margin, you can add an
\hskip
to that initial@{}
.)