Text Formatting ⇒ Ragged left Alignment on the right

[heavytull]

Hi,
I would like a little portion of my text containing very short lines to be \raggedleft while that portion is positioned so as its longest line touches the right border of the page.
for example:

THE PAGE
_______________________
| TextTextTextTextText |
| TextTextTextTextTextx |
| |
| PortionBegin |
| TextTextTextte | <--Longest line touches the right border
| TextText |
| Text |
| Text |
| PortionEnd |
| |
| TextTextTextTextText |
| TextTextTextTextTextx |
|_______________________ |

[Stefan Kottwitz]

For positioning blocks of text, \parbox or a minipage environment are useful. However, they require specifying a width.

For simply aligning lines, a tabbing or a tabular environment could be used. For example, a tabular environment just has a natural width, you don't need to know that before. So, here we use

• a tabular environment
• a left aligned column
• @{} for removing the default space before and after the column
• \hfill to push the table to the right

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\hfill\begin{tabular}{@{}l@{}}
Small\\
portion of\\
text
\end{tabular}

Stefan

[heavytull]

your solution works fine.
I'm actually replying because I just found that \hfill had no effect after a \\ or \newline. It works only straight after some text of after a \par.
Does anyone know why?