swonk@ccicpg.UUCP (Glen Swonk) (07/13/89)
I would like to produce 2-3 across items in a LaTeX document. Similar to what follows. o apple o bike o book1 o pear o car o book2 o orange o plane o book3 Where the "o" represent bullets. I've seen this in some documents. Do they do this with a \item with \hspace ? Any help is appreciated. -- Glenn L. Swonk CCI Computers (714)458-7282 9801 Muirlands Boulevard Irvine, CA 92718 uunet!ccicpg!swonk
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) (07/14/89)
In article <31351@ccicpg.UUCP> swonk@ccicpg.UUCP (Glen Swonk) writes: | I would like to produce 2-3 across items | in a LaTeX document. Similar to what follows. | | o apple o bike o book1 | o pear o car o book2 | o orange o plane o book3 | | Where the "o" represent bullets. This isn't itemize, but it should work... \begin{tabular}{@{$\bullet$}l@{$\bullet}l@{$\bullet}l} apple & bike & book1 \\ pear & car & book2 \\ orange & plane & book3 \end{tabular} Add spacing as desired. -- Jim Wright jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu
grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) (07/14/89)
the following should do it, although not as cleanly as desired.
you can put extra space between the columns using @ notation;
see the latex guide
\begin{tabular}{llllll}
o & apple & o & bike & o & book1
o & pear & o & car & o & book2
o & orange & o & plane & o & book3
\end{tabular}
--
Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois (grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu)leichter@CS.YALE.EDU (Jerry Leichter (LEICHTER-JERRY@CS.YALE.EDU)) (07/15/89)
In article <31351@ccicpg.UUCP>, swonk@ccicpg.UUCP (Glen Swonk) writes... >I would like to produce 2-3 across items >in a LaTeX document. Similar to what follows. > > >o apple o bike o book1 >o pear o car o book2 >o orange o plane o book3 > >Where the "o" represent bullets. > >I've seen this in some documents. >Do they do this with a \item with \hspace ? > >Any help is appreciated. >-- >Glenn L. Swonk CCI Computers >(714)458-7282 9801 Muirlands Boulevard > Irvine, CA 92718 >uunet!ccicpg!swonk There are (at least) three different ways to do this; they differ partly in how you view what you are doing: a) If you are viewing the three columns as independent itemized lists, you should build the lists in three minipages, storing the results into saveboxes, and then place the three saveboxes on the page. Note that if some item in one list is longer than the corresponding items in the others, they won't line up - the three columns are really independent. b) If you are just viewing this as a kind of "picture", forget about itemize and do it as either a tabular or tabbing environment. (tabular is probably the more appropriate, since it looks as if you are thinking of this as having two dimensions of organization. Insert the bullets yourself - the @{text} option will be helpful. c) If you are viewing this as a list - most likely in the order (apple, bike, book1, pear, ...) - then you could define a new list environment to lay things out in multiple columns. This is the hardest approach, but it may be the most appropriate in some situations. -- Jerry