Text Formatting ⇒ Move multi column list up one line

[shinobi]

I'm working on a resume. I need this list to move up to the same line the section title is on (as that is how the rest of my resume is). I'm using the multicol package to have 2 column bullet lists. The code looks like this:

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\section(TITLE) \begin{multicols}{2}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item First Item
    \item Second Item
    \item Third Item
    \item Fourth Item
  \end{itemize}
\end{multicols}

This produces something like:

TITLE
*First Item *Second Item
*Third Item *Fourth Item

I need the First Item and Second Items to be on the same line as the section title. Any help would be much much appreciated

[frabjous]

That makes very little sense. Surely you don't want...

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TITLE *First Item *Second Item
*Third Item *Fourth Item

That would be very very ugly.


Is the title in the margin or something? So that it should look like:

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TITLE  *First Item *Second Item
       *Third Item *Fourth Item

If it is, we need to know how that is accomplished, since that is not standard behavior, and that is impossible to understand how to handle this without knowing what documentclass, packages, etc., you're using that is responsible for it.

So, in short, provide a proper minimal working example and not just a code snippet.

[shinobi]

I'm using res9a.tex and res.cls from this link provided:
http://rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/

Here's an example of how the rest of the resume works:

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\section{OBJECTIVE} To gain employment.

It produces:
OBJECTIVE To gain employment.

If you'd like I can post the entire res9a.tex and the res.cls, but they are found at the link above.

EDIT: Also, it does format correctly like the second example you gave where they are aligned, but they're just one line too low. I'm assuming multicol automatically moves it down a line?

[frabjous]

I think multicol just flushes out the partly written line; it wouldn't move to a new line unless the line it's on had been partly written already, as it is here.

I tested things out, and it seems to work just fine to put the \section command inside the multicol environment (at least as well as it would be if you had a single column list there):

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\begin{multicols}{2}
\section{TITLE}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item First Item
    \item Second Item
    \item Third Item
    \item Fourth Item
  \end{itemize}
\end{multicols}

If there's something strange about that, my next suggestion was going to be to use some negative vertical space, but for some odd reason, it seemed to work just to use 0 vertical space, which is very confusing to me:

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\section{TITLE}
\vspace{0pt}
\begin{multicols}{2}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item First Item
    \item Second Item
    \item Third Item
    \item Fourth Item
  \end{itemize}
\end{multicols}

That vspace command shouldn't do anything at all, yet in that document class somehow it does. Feeling a bit to lazy at the moment to try to figure out what's going on there.

[shinobi]

Thanks a bunch! Putting the section line after multicols seemed to work fine. I'm not sure how that makes sense actually, but I'm happy with it working. The 0 vertical space seems to make even less sense, but also works.

Thanks again.

[localghost]

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