Text Formatting ⇒ Tabbing, alignment

[danmaker]

Hello,

is there any way to set a right aligment of text in the tabbing environment?
The first tab has left alignment, but I need the next tab to have the text aligned to the right.

Thanks in advance

[gmedina]

Hi,

can't you use a tabular environment?

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\documentclass{article}
      
\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{lr}
  column1 & column2\\
  text & text
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

[danmaker]

hi,

tried that out, but can´t make the left column to align with the left side of the page, it sets the table in the vertical center

[localghost]

[...] tried that out, but can´t make the left column to align with the left side of the page, it sets the table in the vertical center

Please explain what the (horizontal) alignment to the left has to do with the alleged vertical centering.


Best regards
Thorsten

[danmaker]

right, sorry about the confusion.. when I set the tabular environment, the left column doesn´t align to the left as the rest of the text in the document does

[localghost]

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\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
  \begin{tabular}{@{}lr@{}}
    column1 & column2\\
    text & text
  \end{tabular}
\end{document}

[danmaker]

great, thanks a lot!

[frabjous]

For the record, you can right align in a tabbing environment using the \` command, which will push the text right aligned up to the next tab stop, or the end of the line if there are no more assigned.

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabbing}
left \` right\\
gauche \` droit\\
links \` rechts\\
\end{tabbing}
\end{document}