[OS X TeX] \hfill confusion

Vic Norton vic at norton.name
Mon Aug 8 17:16:37 CEST 2011


Thanks, Claus! That does it.   - Vic

On Aug 8, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> Don't load parskip.
> 
> Claus
> 
> 
> On Aug 8, 2011, at 16:37, Vic Norton wrote:
> 
>> I am confused about \hfill. On my system it won't push a minipage all the way to the right. Here is an illustrative script.
>> 
>>  \documentclass{article} 
>>  \usepackage[parfill]{parskip}
>>  \thispagestyle{empty}
>> 
>>  \begin{document}
>>  xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx
>>  xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx
>> 
>>  \begin{minipage}{2.0in}
>>  xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx
>>  \end{minipage}
>>  \hfill
>>  \begin{minipage}{2.0in}
>>  xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx
>>  \end{minipage}
>> 
>>  \end{document}
>> 
>> The second minipage does not get pushed to the right-hand border. So how do I push a minipage to the right-hand border of a page?
>> 
>> I'm attaching a picture of the output of the above script.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Vic
>> 
>> <hfill-minpage.png>
>> 
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