Text Formatting ⇒ Horizontal Text Alignment

[hbaromega]

I want to commence text always at the same position. I want to decide the position at the beginning. This is something like what we using while writing a biological data. For example.

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Surname:          Einstein

Name:             Albert

Date of birth:    March 14, 1879

You can notice that Einstein, Albert and March appear at the same position.

Thanks.

[localghost]

What about a {tabbing} (← Link!) or {tabular} (← Link!) environment?


Thorsten

[hbaromega]

What about a {tabbing} (← Link!) or {tabular} (← Link!) environment?

{tabular} I particularly want to avoid, since I want to continue for several pages. I guess there could be some issues.

I want to start a sentence, for example, at every 4cm from the margin. Also
would be nice if you use my "Albert Einstein" example.

[localghost]

Then try a customized {list} environment. It allows page breaks.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

{tabbing} works with line breaks, just try and let us know if there are still problems.

Stefan