On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:51:11AM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
> On 24-Jan-02 Dan Griswold wrote:
> > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> The LaTeX "center" environment follows that style too (FWIW). (I
> >> don't believe it is possible to have only part of a line be in a
> >> center environment. Nope, I just tried it. \begin{center} starts a
> >> new paragraph (or at least a line))
> >>
> >
> > The \tabular environment is what you would use for this.
>
> This looks like over-kill! The \tabular envoronment
> is heavy.
>
> I don't know TeX well enough to know whether this is the
> only option, but I would be surprised if it did not somewhere
> have the equivalent of groff's ".tl":
>
> .tl 'lefthand string'centre string'righthand string'
>
> which outputs a line with "lefthand string" left justified,
> "centre string" centred, and "righthand string right
> justified.
>
> The typical use for such a thing is three-part running
> headers on successive pages, which is a very basic
> need, and there must be some way in which TeX does this
> layout for this purpose, which could be borrowed.
>
> Ted.
In TeX you should write
lefthand string\hfilcenter string\hfilrighthand string
(you can add several more l's to the \hfil's to emphasize the point ;)
m&f
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