[comp.text] Problem: scripts in LaTeX

mmonegan@hpclmdm.HP.COM (Mike Monegan) (12/05/89)

I'm writing a script with LaTeX and could use a pointer or two by someone
who has ossibly hacked this before.

I'd like to have two columns of boxes of text (each in LR mode) so that i
get something like this:


        Visual Cue                                Audio Text

First I do this.                        Then I talk some, describing what
                                        I did.

Now I do something else that is         I continue the talk over on this side,
a bit more compilcated.                 so that when we read the script, we
                                        see all the text in one column with
                                        short breaks.

...and so on.


I remember this question being asked long ago, but I didn't save the
result.  Can someone comment on how they might try to do it?  When I use a
tabular environment with 2 columns containing \mbox's and \makebox's, I get
only one line of text for each box and lots of "run-off's" to the right.

Any and all ideas accepted!  Thanks for any help you can provide.

--Mike Monegan
  mmonegan%hpclmdm@hplabs.hp.com
  (408) 447-0769

mmonegan@hpclmdm.HP.COM (Mike Monegan) (12/07/89)

Thanks to those who responding.  Much thanks for pointing me at the
p{width} column specifier in the tabular environment.

Next time, I'll RTFM a little closer.  It's amazing what little gems you
find down deep in LaTeX.

--Mike Monegan