[OS X TeX] (relative amateur) right aligning a paragraph in LaTeX

[Claus Gerhardt]

Use \parbox or \minipage.

Claus


On Nov 11, 2006, at 17:06, Jason Davies wrote:

> Probably foolishly I moved my cv into LaTeX (foolishly because  
> precise knowledge is required to get the layout to work). I am  
> therefore throwing myself on your mercy on this...
>
> 1) The address at the top looks fine and dandy left-justified. But  
> a colleague said that having it on the right-hand side (with left- 
> justification) is still theonly sensible way to go. This is of  
> course quite easy in Word etc and my usual evangelical discussions  
> of TeX went very quiet when I tried to work out how to do this.
>
> 2) similarly- I was told that I should have something like this
>
> DATE (tab/gap) post details.
>
> Where post details overruns a line, it should also be aligned with  
> the previous line (not slide under the date to the beginning of the  
> line). I was just putting date in bold, then \indent but of course  
> this does not align the paragraph with foregoing text. Judicious  
> use of \indent nearly solved this except where I had this
>
> 2006-7 blah blah
> 2005 blah
>
>
> Where the date is different in length, it's impossible to align the  
> various blahs.
>
> I have tried using tabular (but then the entries are not wrapped/ 
> typeset, they just run off the page) and tabbing (similar) but  
> neither can do what I need.
>
> If this is too obscure I can post a jpeg or similar to a webpage to  
> illustrate what mean. It's no good recreating in an email since  
> line wrapping and font sizes will mess it up:-)
>
>
> If there is some environment that will sort this out relatively  
> easily, do please shout. Please also honestly say 'you are so  
> inexpert, apparently, that you should probably go back to Word for  
> this' (I'm happy writing books in LaTeX but this fine-tuned layout  
> is beyond me, and my reading of the various manuals).
>
>
> many thanks for your consideration...!
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