lindek@alberta.UUCP (Dekang Lin) (01/15/89)
1. How can I produce this with LaTeX? |where X is the ......| | ..... | | Y is ..........| | .... | The vertical bars mark the two sides of the page. I tried this: where \parbox[t]{\fill}{ x is the ..... ..\\ y is the ... .......} I expect \fill to give the length from where the parbox begins to the right margin. However, it gives a 0. 2. I need to typeset a table with some of the entries rotated. Can I do this with LaTeX? Thanks in advance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dekang Lin PHONE: OFFICE: 1-403-432-3977 Department of Computing Science HOME: 1-403-433-8298 University of Alberta E-MAIL: Edmonton, Alberta CDN: lindek@alberta.cdn Canada T6G 2H1 UUCP: lindek@alberta.uucp
mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) (01/16/89)
Why don't you use the trivlist environment? It should do what you want.
\begin{trivlist}
\item[where]
...
\end{trivlist}
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If for some reason you don't want to try that then try this: to get
the text indented use the trivlist.
\begin{trivlist}
\item[]
...
\end{trivlist}
to get the "where" on in the left margin try marginpar (I don't really
like this, because of cost). You could also try \noindent\llap{where}
(I don't really like this because you using latex any more)
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Finally you could use the tabular environment with the p option.
\begin{tabular}{lp{dimen of some size}}
...
\end{tabular}
(I don't like this as it is expensive; you have to choose the size; you
will mess up page breaks)
so what should you do? use the first example given.
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>2. I need to typeset a table with some of the entries rotated. Can I do
>this with LaTeX?
no.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------mic@hpesrgd.HP.COM (Marc Clarke) (01/19/89)
You could try a minipage environment to hold everything to the right of the "where", and use a description list inside the minipage environment.