[Tuglist] Two different text widths in one page (Arindam C)

Arindam C tuglist@tug.org.in
Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:42:48 +0530 (IST)


Hi,
	thanks for your help. I've done it defining new environments:

\newenvironment{gt}{\begin{minipage}[c]{0.85\textwidth}}
{\end{minipage}
\par}

for narrow text, and

\newenvironment{gc}{\flushleft
\tt}
{\par}

for full-width text, and used \flushright at the top of the 1st minipage.


 ARINDAM CHAKRABORTY
 CAOS, IISc, Bangalore-12, INDIA
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On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, S. venkataraman wrote:

> 
> \hspace*{2cm}\begin{minipage}{xcm}
> \end{minipage}
> where x is \textwidth -2cm.
> If you want to something better, you have to look at TeX book where
> Knuth explains how set left and right margins for paragraphs.