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by Matt_Fl
Thu May 27, 2010 9:33 pm
Forum: Text Formatting
Topic: Right aligning a left-aligned block of text
Replies: 6
Views: 15305

Re: Right aligning a left-aligned block of text

The parbox with hfill does what I want at the moment. I will check out the two packages if I want to do something more sophisticated in the future. Thank you!
by Matt_Fl
Thu May 27, 2010 8:44 pm
Forum: Text Formatting
Topic: Right aligning a left-aligned block of text
Replies: 6
Views: 15305

Re: Right aligning a left-aligned block of text

Sorry, I realize my explanation was a bit confusing. I want something to right align the block of text (which is left aligned within itself) to the right margin. And the same thing on the left margin (this is trivial to do). This is going to be used for only a small section of my document, but maybe ...
by Matt_Fl
Thu May 27, 2010 4:48 pm
Forum: Text Formatting
Topic: Right aligning a left-aligned block of text
Replies: 6
Views: 15305

Right aligning a left-aligned block of text

I want to have a left aligned block of left aligned text on one side of the page and a right aligned block of left aligned text on the other. I have tried using a tabular environment, but I can't get exactly what I want without resorting to manually inputting column spacings (not ideal). Any ideas ...