Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!ub.d.umn.edu!tchow From: tchow@ub.d.umn.edu (Timothy Chow) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: alignment Message-ID: <189@ub.d.umn.edu> Date: 9 Aug 90 00:43:32 GMT References: Distribution: comp.text.tex Organization: None. This saves me from writing a disclaimer. Lines: 30 E-mail bounced. In article chin@ankh.ankh.ftl.fl.us (Albert Chin) writes: >How is it possible to do the following in plain TeX: > >xxxxxxx yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy zzzzzz > yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy > yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Below is one solution. Note that the struts are necessary to get the baselines spaced properly. \hbox to\hsize{ \hsize=1in \vtop{Left side.} \hfill \hsize=4in \vtop{\noindent This is a slightly longer paragraph. I will fill it with junk just to make sure that it takes several lines to typeset. Of course, I could just type nonsense, but then \TeX's hyphenation algorithm wouldn't work properly, would it? Besides, it gives me a chance to practice my typing.\strut} \hfill \hsize=1in \vtop{Right side.} } \strut And this is the next paragraph. -- Timothy Chow tchow@ub.d.umn.edu