General ⇒ Right Justification

[rameshsreekantan]

Hi

I cant seem to figure out how to right justify in LaTeX without going over to the next line.

I want to get something like

blahblahblah (10)

i.e. (10) at the right end of the line with the blahs.( I think the word processor for this forum also ignores blank spaces, so while I have left spaces after the blahs and put (10) at the right extreme, it doesnt show up that way )

But when I use the command

blahblahblah \begin{flushright} (10) \end{flushright}

I end up with something like

blahblahblah
(10)

( that is, it comes on the next line ). And of course it wont work if I use the \begin{flushright} before the blahs.

In the math environment $$ \eqno(10)$$ does the trick for an equation but I cant figure out what to do for regular text. As one might imagine I want to use it to write the marks for a question after the question when I make an exam.

Any ideas ?

regards,

Ramesh

[gmedina]

You can use the \hfill command:

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blah blah blah \hfill (10)

By the way, if you are using LaTeX, enclose your mathematical formulae using \[...\] instead of $$...$$. The latter is a TeX command that will produce inconsistencies in the vertical spacing. More reasons to avoid the use of $$...$$ can be found in this document.

[rameshsreekantan]

Hi

It works ! Thanks. I had tried it before but I think I used it in the math environment so it didn't work.

Ramesh