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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/latex2e-html/ltx-58.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/latex2e-html/ltx-58.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d5624173888 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/latex2e-html/ltx-58.html @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +<html> +<head><title>Help On LaTeX tabbing</title></head> +<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#000099" vlink="#cc0000" alink="#cc0000"> +<h1><font size="-2">Hypertext Help with LaTeX</font><br><font color="#cc0000">tabbing</font></h1> +<p><pre> + \begin{tabbing} + text \= more text \= still more text \= last text \\ + second row \> \> more \\ + .... + .... + \end{tabbing} +</pre> + The tabbing environment provides a way to align text in columns. It + works by setting tab stops and tabbing to them much the way you do + with an ordinary typewriter. +<p> + The <a href="ltx-68.html">tabular</a> environment also aligns text in + columns, but there are several important differences. + <ul> + <li> The tabular environment can be used in any <a href="ltx-130.html">mode</a> + whereas the tabbing environment can be used only in paragraph + <a href="ltx-130.html">mode</a> and it starts a new paragraph. +<p> + <li>The tabular + environment generates a box, which LaTeX treats as one (albeit very large) + letter; it cannot be split across pages. A long tabbing environment can + be split across pages. +<p> + <li>The width of columns in a tabular environment is determined automatically + by LaTeX; in the tabbing environment this is done by setting tab stops. +</ul> +<H2>Tabbing commands</H2> +<ul> +<li><A href="ltx-187.html"><tt>\=</tt></A> (set tab) +<li><A href="ltx-188.html"><tt>\></tt></A> (advance to next tab stop) +<li><A href="ltx-189.html"><tt>\<</tt></A> +<li><A href="ltx-190.html"><tt>\+</tt></A> (indent; move margin right) +<li><A href="ltx-182.html"><tt>\-</tt></A> (unindent; move margin left) +<li><A href="ltx-191.html"><tt>\'</tt></A> +<li><A href="ltx-192.html"><tt>\`</tt></A> +<li><a href="ltx-181.html"><tt>\\</tt></a> (end of line; newline) +<li><A href="ltx-251.html"><tt>\kill</tt></A> (ignore preceding text; use only + for spacing) +</ul> +The <a href="ltx-241.html"><tt>\hspace</tt></a> command is useful for +controlling horizontal space in the tabbing environment. +<p> +Note that the commands <tt>\=</tt>, <tt>\'</tt>, and <tt>\`</tt> +normally produce <a href="ltx-401.html">accents</a> over the subsequent +letter. These commands are redefined in the tabbing environment; +in this environment it is possible to get the accents by using +<tt>\a=</tt>, <tt>\a'</tt>, and <tt>\a`</tt>, respectively. +</body> +<hr> +Return to <a href="ltx-2.html">LaTeX Table of Contents</a> +<hr> +<address> +Revised: Sheldon Green, 28 Nov 1995. +</address> +</html> |