[OS X TeX] Multicol help

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 28.05.2005 um 21:45 schrieb Christopher Allen:

> I've been playing around with multicol some, cleaning up output, but 
> I'm still running into a few problems I cannot solve.
>

What about something different?

\usepackage{array,ragged2e,longtable}

\newenvironment{longtable}[1]{\begin{tabular}{#1}}{\end{tabular}}

\begin{longtable}{rl>{\RaggedRight}p{135mm}}
& \multicolumn{2}{l}{\Huge\so{Peter Dyballa}}\\[8.75mm]
\rule{9.375mm}{0mm}\textbf{\textit{Zur Person}} & 
\multicolumn{2}{l}{Nationalität: deutsch}\\[.75mm]
& \multicolumn{2}{l}{nicht verheiratet}\\[1.25mm]
\textbf{\textit{Schulen}} & 08/66 - 11/68 & Grundschule in Polen, 3. 
Klasse wg. Umsiedlung abgebrochen\\

\newpage

\end{longtable}


With longtable the table can stretch a few pages. Using the ragged2e 
package you can make columns be ragged and be a specified maximum wide. 
The example above is from my recent CV. The leftmost column is mostly 
empty, containing minor titles, the rightmost one is the one with text, 
up to two or three lines. The invisible ruler is necessary, otherwise 
the spacing of the leftmost column changes a few times.

--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen

   Pete

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