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From: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (dhosek)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Is there a non-icky way of doing this?
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Date: 11 Jan 90 03:26:21 GMT
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In article <1990Jan11.013500.16948@athena.mit.edu> joe@athena.mit.edu (Joseph C Wang) writes:
>I'd like to do the following in TeX:

>left_text1 .......... [hbox] ................ right_text1
>other_left_text ..... [hbox] ................ right_text2

>What I want is for the hbox in the middle to be centered between the
>right and left margins.  Left text of various lengths to be flush left
>with the left margin, right text of several lengths to be flush right
>with the right margin, and leaders linking the text and the hbox.

\def\tripleline#1#2#3{\setbox0=\hbox{#2} \dimen0=-\wd0 
         \advance\dimen0 by\hsize
         \divide\dimen0 by 2
         \line{\hbox to \dimen0{#1\dotfill}\box0\hbox to \dimen0{\dotfill#3}}

I wonder if it will work.

-dh
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