General ⇒ Dynamic Minipage Sizing

[lanew]

I'm trying to format a document with two groups of text, one on the left, and one on the right with blank space in the middle. At the moment I use two minipages with \hfill in between to push one to the right. This works fine; however, if I edit the font inside the minpage environment I have to change the width of the minipage. Is there a way to have dynamic sizing in the minipage environment so if I change the text it resizes itself? Or should I go about this another way?

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}[H]{0.3\textwidth}
Something \\
Something Else
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[H]{0.3\textwidth}
Something \\
Something Else
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

If you would like to have automatic size of the text, you should fix the space between. Otherwise, LaTeX cannot know to which width the text should be adjusted.

I recommend using the tabularx package and the environment with the same name, such as

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\begin{document}
\noindent
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{X@{\hspace{2cm}}X}
\blindtext & \blindtext
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}

Stefan

[lanew]

Thanks very much for your reply Stefan!

I actually just came back to post my new findings and saw your reply. I decided to go with the regular tabular environment as follows:

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{l}
Something \\
Something
\end{tabular} \hfill % Push table to right
\begin{tabular}{l}
Something \\
Something
\end{tabular} % To align with right margin
\end{document}

This has worked out perfectly. Thanks again!