itemizeliststabbing
How can I combine the tabbing and itemize environments so that I'll have a list in which I can use tabstops?
- It would be nice foo bar
- If I could get this working baz quuz
I know I could just use an ordinary tabbing environment and fake the first "column" to always display a bullet point, but I'm sure there is a more standard solution.
I'm sure there are packages doing this, but probably it's too simple for there to be a dedicated package exactly for this.
Here's a simple solution which probably has to be extended to be really useful.
\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\newcommand\startitems
{%
\begingroup
\parindent\z@
\@itemdepth\@ne
\@totalleftmargin\csname leftmargin\romannumeral\the\@itemdepth\endcsname
\leftskip\@totalleftmargin
\everypar
{%
\llap{%
\makebox[\labelsep][l]
{%
\csname labelitem\romannumeral\the\@itemdepth\endcsname
}
}%
}%
\obeylines
}
\newcommand\stopitems
{%
\bottom
\par\endgroup
}
\newcommand\up
{%
\par
\begingroup
\advance\@itemdepth\@ne
\advance\@totalleftmargin\csname leftmargin\romannumeral\the\@itemdepth\endcsname
\leftskip\@totalleftmargin
}
\newcommand\down{\par\endgroup}
\newcommand\bottom
{%
\ifnum\@itemdepth>\@ne
\down\bottom
\fi
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\section*{title}
\startitems
this is a line of text
this is another line of text
\up
this is a subpoint
another
\up
sub-sub point
\bottom
back to first level
\stopitems
\noindent Normal text
\end{document}
There has to be some way to enclose the itemizing effect, so I added \startitems \stopitems.
You indicate in comments that you just want stretchy glue before the last column. There is no need to get LaTeX to fake this with an X column. Adding stretch glue between columns is a primitive feature of the underlying \halign primitive and available in teh core latex format using tabular* tabularx is an attempt to copy the syntax of tabular* but modify column widths rather than inter-column space, it is far less efficient that tabular*.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\begin{document}
\noindent\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\hspace{\parindent}}r@{\hspace{\labelsep}}p{3in}@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r}
$\bullet$ & This is some experience & startdate--enddate\\
$\bullet$ & This is another experience & startdate--enddate
\end{tabular*}
\begin{itemize}
\item Test text
\item Test text
\end{itemize}
\noindent\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\hspace{\parindent}}>{$\bullet$\hspace{\labelsep}}p{3in}@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r}
This is some experience & startdate--enddate\\
This is another experience & startdate--enddate
\end{tabular*}
\end{document}
Or more accurately copying the list layout, with an example with 0pt parindent:
\documentclass{article}
\parindent=0pt
\usepackage{array}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item Test text
\item Test text
\end{itemize}
\noindent\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\hspace{\labelwidth}\llap{\labelitemi}\hspace{\labelsep}}p{3in}@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r}
This is some experience & startdate--enddate\\[\itemsep]
This is another experience & startdate--enddate
\end{tabular*}
\end{document}
Best Answer
What about a table environment or
longtablefor breaking across pages. Use thelistliketabpackageIt has the advantage that you can use
pcolumns to wrap long lines, etc.