Two-column flushed-right aligned-left text with linebreak

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I want my text in title (executor and supervisor fields) to be flushed right and aligned left. Also I need to have line breaks in it. For now, I've made it using flushright, tabular and parbox

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}    
\begin{flushright}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
    executor:     & \textit{\parbox[l]{6cm}{\vspace*{1em} Name  \\ some text} }\vspace{0.5em} \\
    supervisor :  & \textit{Name}       \\
\end{tabular}
\end{flushright}
\end{document}

so it looks like this now:

But maybe there is more elegant solution.

Best Answer

You can use a \parbox or better as Dan showed a p column, however this requires you to fix a width of the box so if the text is shorter, the resulting block will not look flush right. In some contexts that is OK, but if you want the block flush to the right margin with its longest line, then it is easier not to use a parbox, as in the second example here.

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}

\noindent X\dotfill filler text\dotfill X

\begin{flushright}
\begin{tabular}{lp{6cm}}
executor:    & \textit{Name\newline Some text}\\
supervisor : & \textit{Name}\\
\end{tabular}
\end{flushright}

\noindent X\dotfill filler text\dotfill X

\begin{flushright}
\begin{tabular}{ll@{}}
executor:    & \textit{Name}\\
             & \textit{Some text}\\
supervisor : & \textit{Name}\\
\end{tabular}
\end{flushright}

\noindent X\dotfill filler text\dotfill X
\end{document}

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Use a tabular for the left alignment and use \hfill to flush it to the right.

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Before

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[Tex/LaTex] Centered box, text inside it flushed right

Use the varwidth package:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{showframe}% http://ctan.org/pkg/showframe
\usepackage{varwidth}% http://ctan.org/pkg/varwidth
\begin{document}
Here is some text. Here is some text. Here is some text.
Here is some text. Here is some text. Here is some text.
Here is some text. Here is some text. Here is some text.

\begin{center}
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    Here is some title that is somewhat long. \par
    And some notes. \\
    And some more notes.
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\end{center}

Here is some text. Here is some text. Here is some text.
Here is some text. Here is some text. Here is some text.
Here is some text. Here is some text. Here is some text.
\end{document}

A width of \textwidth for the varwidth environment makes sure that the text will fit within the text block, but also shrink to the natural width of the box (in case it's not as wide).

For keeping the title centred (if the notes extend beyond the width of the title), you can use

\begin{center}
  \begin{varwidth}{\textwidth}
    \centerline{Here is some title that is somewhat long.} \par
    And some notes. \\
    And some more notes. And some more notes. And some more notes.
  \end{varwidth}
\end{center}

However, you are required to use \par to the title here then. There are other ways to do this as well.

The showframe package merely highlights the "centred-ness".

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