General ⇒ eqparbox with raggedleft

[daroepi]

I am using eqparbox and want to right-justify a number of words (separated by a newline). I tried to use \raggedleft but it complains with the error:

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Error: ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.

Here is a code sample to illustrate the problem:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{eqparbox}
\begin{document}
\setlength{\parindent}{0in}

\framebox{%
\begin{tabular}{l|l}
\eqparbox[t]{boxtest}{Pythagorean} &
\parbox[t]{2cm}{\raggedleft one \\two \\ three \\ four}
\end{tabular}}
\newline
\framebox{%
\begin{tabular}{l}
\eqparbox[t]{boxtest}{\raggedleft one\\two\\three\\four}  % PROBLEM
\end{tabular}}

\end{document}

Note, the standard parbox can use \raggedleft without a problem, yet eqparbox complains - why is this?

[cacajean]

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[frabjous]

I'm no expert on eqparboxes, but I gather from the eqparbox manual that since it uses a tabular environment internally, it's best to avoid \\'s internally. Seems to work if you use \linebreak instead:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{eqparbox}
\begin{document}
\setlength{\parindent}{0in}

\framebox{%
\begin{tabular}{l|l}
\eqparbox[t]{boxtest}{Pythagorean} &
\parbox[t]{2cm}{\raggedleft one \\two \\ three \\ four}
\end{tabular}}
\newline
\framebox{%
\begin{tabular}{l}
\eqparbox[t]{boxtest}{\raggedleft one\linebreak two\linebreak three\linebreak four}  % PROBLEM
\end{tabular}}

\end{document}

[cacajean]

Completely working!