aceverj@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Jaap Verhage) (06/08/90)
From: NORM@IONAACAD.BITNET (Norman Walsh)
The person in the above-mentioned address sent me a question
which, to someone rather good at getting emTeX up and running,
but no TeXpert at all, is over my head. I inclose the question
below; Norm would certainly like it if you'd be so good as to
send him mail with an answer. Thanks.
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Now I have a TeX-related question that I am hoping that you can answer.
I'm pretty sure the answer is simple but I can't find anything quite like
it in The TeXbook. How can I produce the following table:
param1 description of param1 that might extend for more
than one line (hence it isn't a table, I guess) and
that I would still like justified.
parameter2 description of parameter2. The \item{} macro produces
something like this but "param1" and "parameter2" are
right justified, and I want them left justified. Is
it a matter of specifying the right kind of glue?
ndw
Bitnet: norm@ionaacad.bitnet
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Regards, Jaap.
Jaap Verhage, Academic Computer Centre, State University at Utrecht, Holland.
aceverj@cc.ruu.nl +<-*|*->+ I claim *every*thing and speak for myselfdhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) (06/08/90)
>Now I have a TeX-related question that I am hoping that you can answer. >I'm pretty sure the answer is simple but I can't find anything quite like >it in The TeXbook. How can I produce the following table: >param1 description of param1 that might extend for more > than one line (hence it isn't a table, I guess) and > that I would still like justified. >parameter2 description of parameter2. The \item{} macro produces > something like this but "param1" and "parameter2" are > right justified, and I want them left justified. Is > it a matter of specifying the right kind of glue? You didn't look hard enough. Take a look at pages 239 and 333 of the TeXbook. LaTeX users should consult the LaTeX manual, pages 182 and 183. As the old Slovenian proverb goes, RTFM (Read the Manual). -dh --- Don Hosek "Other people get into occupations by dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu accident or design; but writers are born. dhosek@ymir.bitnet We have to write. I have to write. I uunet!jarthur!ymir could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked me my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers _write_. Other people _talk_." -W.P. Kinsella
piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) (06/08/90)
In article <455@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>, aceverj@accucx (Jaap Verhage) writes: | |From: NORM@IONAACAD.BITNET (Norman Walsh) | How can I produce the following table: | |param1 description of param1 that might extend for more | than one line (hence it isn't a table, I guess) and | that I would still like justified. See exercise 22.8 in the TeXbook. Just move the \hfil or \hss after #1. -- Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>