Text Formatting ⇒ wrapping in tabbing environment

[juliette]

As the following code shows, the tabbing environment doesn't allow wrapping.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{mathrsfs}
\usepackage{mathtools}


\begin{document}

\begin{tabbing}
        Below \= is a list that i want tabbed\\
                 \> Here I am going to write a long sentence which I would like to wrap around but will instead keep traveling to the right even after the page stops even though I want it to wrap to the next like and start from where the beginning of this stentence started, or maybe even a little bit more to the left\\
                 \> Here I am going to write a long sentence which I would like to wrap around but will instead keep traveling to the right even after the page stops even though I want it to wrap to the next like and start from where the beginning of this stentence started, or maybe even a little bit more to the left
        \end{tabbing}

\end{document}

So in order to wrap things, I have to manually add the \\ command everywhere. But in order to know where to put the \\ commands, I need to keep recompiling dozens of times to see where the end of the sentence should be.


Is there a way to get automatic word-wrapping ??

[gmedina]

Hi,

can't you just use a tabular environment instead?

[juliette]

Hmm, thanks for the suggestion,

It seems that could work although it would require a lot of tilde's and multicolumn's

If there's an easier way, I'd be eager to learn it!

[gmedina]

A more explicit description of your actual intent, would help us to suggest a convenient solution.

[juliette]

Thank you,
Well in the code above, when I compile it, both sentences starting with the word "Here" are printed on one line each. Since the page is only 8.5 inches wide, I only see a small portion of the sentence.

If the text wrapped around, each of those sentences would be 4 or 5 lines long each.

In order to make this happen, I would need to use the \\ command to cut the line short and put the rest on a new line. But it's hard to know in advance where to put those \\ commands, and it would of course me a lot nicer if the latex could calculate where to put the \\'s for me.

I am using the tabbed environment because I want the first to lines to be indented slightly, and \qquad doesn't work for indenting lines (maybe becaue I'm using revtex4).

[gmedina]

And what's the problem with something like the following:

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\documentclass[11pt]{revtex4}
\usepackage{lipsum}% jus to generate some text

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]
\noindent\begin{tabular}{@{\hspace{.2\textwidth}}p{.78\textwidth}}
Here I am going to write a long sentence which I would like to wrap around but will instead keep traveling to the right even after the page stops even though I want it to wrap to the next like and start from where the beginning of this stentence started, or maybe even a little bit more to the left\\
Here I am going to write a long sentence which I would like to wrap around but will instead keep traveling to the right even after the page stops even though I want it to wrap to the next like and start from where the beginning of this stentence started, or maybe even a little bit more to the left
\end{tabular}
\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

If indentation is all that you want, you could also try defining a new environment, using a list, to produce the desired indentation.

[juliette]

Thank you very much gmedina,
The example really helped me understand how to use a table to solve the problem.

When you first said table, for some reason I was thinking of making the first line a multicolumn line ... clearly my brain is not working today,

but that example definitely helped.

Thank you very much!