General ⇒ right and left aligned on the same line?

[akvik]

Hi,

I need to have some text that are both right- and left-aligned on the same line. (it's for a dictionary, and the right-aligned text is in arabic)

the \begin{flushright} makes a new paragraph, so it automatically creates a new line - does anyone know how to circumvent this, or is there another solution?

Thanks!

[localghost]

Take a look at the parallel package. It lets you typeset text blocks side by side.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[akvik]

Thanks for a hyper-fast response! Will check the paralell package, but while reading about it, it seems that it makes two separate columns. The most ideal thing would be to have:

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SOME WORD HERE                         RIGHT ALIGNED TEXT 
           THAT CONTINUES BELOW THE WORD ON THE NEW LINES
                          WHILE STILL BEING RIGHT-ALIGNED
 

Is that possible, you think? Ignore to reply if paralell fixes this, I can read the manual

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi akvik,

without parallel, a simple solution could be using \hfill:

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SOME WORD \hfill RIGHT ALIGNED TEXT

\hfill THAT CONTINUES BELOW THE WORD ON THE NEW LINES

\hfill   WHILE STILL BEING RIGHT-ALIGNED

\parindent could be set to 0pt to begin the text at the left margin.

Stefan

[Juanjo]

... or even with the help of \parbox:

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Some word\hfill\parbox[t]{0.7\textwidth}{\raggedleft Right aligned text that
continues below the word on the new lines while still being right-aligned}

[akvik]

Thanks! That works