[Tex/LaTex] Signatures side by side

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It's been a while since I last used Latex, so please bear with me.
As the title reads, I'd like to have two signature side by side (50% each) at the bottom of a medical report. This is what I currently have (apparently with slightly changed author names):

\flushleft
\newlength\jm
\settowidth{\jm}{Luke Skywalker}
\begin{tabular}{p{\jm}}\hline
\centering\footnotesize (Luke Skywalker)
\end{tabular}

\vspace{10 mm}

The force is strong in my family
\vspace{5 mm}

\flushleft
\newlength\mb
\settowidth{\mb}{Darth Vader}
\begin{tabular}{p{\mb}}\hline
\centering\footnotesize (Darth Vader)
\end{tabular}

And it looks like this in scrartcl:

How can Luke stand right next to his father (Luke left, both with underlines) ?

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Self-copying my answer from Left and right aligned on same line, given that's much more suited here:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{showframe} % just to show the page boundaries
\begin{document}

whatever... 

\vfill  % push the rest to the bottom of the page
\noindent \parbox[t]{0.5\linewidth}{%
\underline{\textbf{Student}} \\ Mr. Studentname \\
\vspace{2cm} } % This 2cm is the space for the signature under the names
\parbox[t]{0.45\linewidth}{%
    \underline{\textbf{Supervisor}} \\ Mr. Supervisorname}

\end{document}

...with the place for signing under the names and flush left with the names. You can change the contents of the parboxes to adjust to your taste.

More to the point:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{showframe} % just to show the page boundaries
\begin{document}

whatever... 

\vfill  % push the rest to the bottom of the page
\noindent 
\parbox[b]{0.4\linewidth}{% size of the first signature box
    \strut 
    Signed by: \\[2cm]% This 2cm is the space for the signature under the names
    \hrule
    (Luke Skywalker)} 
\hspace{1cm} % distance between the two signature blocks 
\parbox[b]{0.4\linewidth}{% ...and the second one
    \strut 
    The force is strong in my family: \\[2cm]% This 2cm is the space for the signature under the names
    \hrule
    (Darth Vader)} 
    \par\vspace{1cm} 
\end{document}

You can center the name under the lines using \centering before them, but you'll have an "underfull hbox" warning that I am still puzzling about...

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[Tex/LaTex] Label two tabular side by side

You will want to use the subcaption package for this purpose.

This package provides the subtable environment for the goal you wanted to achieve. Please read section 3 of the package documentation for details.

Please note how the \subref command has been used to refer to the subtables. If you want to refer using both main number and subnumber (e.g. 1(a)), you will want to use the \ref command. Format for all of these can be controlled. Please see the package documentation for this feature. Another useful document is here.

Anyway, here is your code.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{subcaption}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[!tbp]
  \centering
  \begin{subtable}[t]{0.4\textwidth}
    \begin{center}
      \begin{tabular}{ccc}
        \hline
        a&b&c\\
        \hline
      \end{tabular}
      \caption{Table at left.}
      \label{tab:left}
    \end{center}
  \end{subtable}
  \quad
  \begin{subtable}[t]{0.4\textwidth}
    \begin{center}
      \begin{tabular}{ccc}
        \hline
        d&e&f\\
        \hline
      \end{tabular}
      \caption{Table at right.}
      \label{tab:right}
    \end{center}
  \end{subtable}
  \caption{This contains two subtables.}
  \label{tab:main}
\end{table}

Please see the left~(\subref{tab:left}) and right~(\subref{tab:right})
tables.

\end{document}

And here is the output.

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[Tex/LaTex] Label two tabular side by side

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