Text Formatting ⇒ resume formatting

[jhapk]

Hi,

I have defined a macro near the beginning of my document like this

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\newcommand{\ta}[3]{
\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r}
  \textbf{#1} & \\ 
  #2 & #3\\
\end{tabular*}\vspace{3pt}
}

and I am using it later in the document like this

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%%
\ta{Teaching Assistant for Scientific Computing (AER336F) course}
{University of Toronto}{Sept 2006 - Dec 2006}
%%
\ta{Teaching Assistant for Numerical Methods (AER334F) course}
{University of Toronto}{Sept 2007 - Dec 2007 and Sept 2008 - Dec 2008}
%%
\ta{Teaching Assistant for Combustion Processes (AER 315F) course}
{University of Toronto}{Sept 2009 - Dec 2009 and Sept 2010 - Dec 2010}

My output looks like this

section.png (34.35 KiB) Viewed 4221 times

Any ideas why is the text not aligned with the others?

Thanks

[gmedina]

Hi,

the problem comes from the contents of the table surpassing the total text width; you can solve the problem by using a \multicolumn command for the first row and by enlarging the text width (using, for example, the geometry package), and/or by reducing the font size:

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\documentclass[11pt,twoside]{article}
\usepackage[margin=2cm]{geometry}

\newcommand{\ta}[3]{%
  \noindent\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r}
  \multicolumn{2}{l}{\textbf{#1}} \\ 
  #2 & #3\\
  \end{tabular*}\vspace{3pt}
}

\begin{document}

%%
\ta{Teaching Assistant for Scientific Computing (AER336F) course}
{University of Toronto}{Sept 2006 - Dec 2006}
%%
\ta{Teaching Assistant for Numerical Methods (AER334F) course}
{University of Toronto}{Sept 2007 - Dec 2007 and Sept 2008 - Dec 2008}
%%
\ta{Teaching Assistant for Combustion Processes (AER 315F) course}
{University of Toronto}{Sept 2009 - Dec 2009 and Sept 2010 - Dec 2010}

\end{document}

[jhapk]

That worked. Thanks!!

[jhapk]

A follow up question. I am using \raggedright command for some other formatting purposes. However, the following code,

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\documentclass{minimal}
\raggedright

\newcommand{\publication}[5]{{$\bullet~$#1, #2, \textit{#3}, #4,
#5}\newline}

\begin{document}

\publication{Name of author 1}{Name of author 2}{Evaluation of
Flame-Prolongation of ILDM and Flamelet Tabulated Chemistry Approaches
for Laminar Flames}{Accepted for presentation at the such and such
meeting at such and such place in such and such country}{and this is
the date}
%%
\publication{Name of author 1}{Name of author 2}{Evaluation of
Flame-Prolongation of ILDM and Flamelet Tabulated Chemistry Approaches
for Laminar Flames}{Accepted for presentation at the such and such
meeting at such and such place in such and such country}{and this is
the date}

\end{document}

gives me the following output

publication.png (55.48 KiB) Viewed 4213 times

The text is not aligned to the right margin. Any ideas how can I keep make it aligned while keeping the \raggedright line in the header at the same time.

Thanks

[gmedina]

I think I don't understand your intent here. Do you want to suppress hyphenation only for the first line of the environment? If so, you could do something like this (with the help of babel):

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\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage[english]{babel}

\newcommand{\publication}[5]{{$\bullet~$#1, #2, \begin{hyphenrules}{nohyphenation}\textit{#3}\end{hyphenrules}, #4,
#5}\newline}

\begin{document}

\publication{Name of author 1}{Name of author 2}{Evaluation of
Flame-Prolongation of ILDM and Flamelet Tabulated Chemistry Approaches
for Laminar Flames}{Accepted for presentation at the such and such
meeting at such and such place in such and such country}{and this is
the date}
%%
\publication{Name of author 1}{Name of author 2}{Evaluation of
Flame-Prolongation of ILDM and Flamelet Tabulated Chemistry Approaches
for Laminar Flames}{Accepted for presentation at the such and such
meeting at such and such place in such and such country}{and this is
the date}

\end{document}

If your goal is different, then please describe it in more detail.

[jhapk]

Hi,

that didn't work. I basically want the text to look like

format1.png (47.95 KiB) Viewed 4208 times

and not like

format2.png (45.77 KiB) Viewed 4208 times

without removing the \raggedright in the header. Is it possible?

Thanks

[frabjous]

Hi,

...without removing the \raggedright in the header. Is it possible?

Thanks

There is no "header" in your sample document, so it's unclear what you're trying to do. Headers don't usually have line breaks. Did you mean "heading"? There's no heading in your sample document either, but usually there are other, better ways of dealing with headings.

You should know however that you can limit the scope of the application of \raggedright either by using the environment instead (or applying inside the scope of braces):

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\begin{raggedright}
Some ragged right stuff.
\end{raggedright}

Stuff which isn't.

[jhapk]

That was a simple solution I should have thought about that.
Thanks!!