\documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage[a4paper]{geometry} \usepackage{miscdoc} \usepackage[scaled=0.85]{luximono} \begin{document} \title{The \Package{tabto} package} \author{Donald Arseneau\thanks{Documentation file assembled by Robin Fairbairns}} \date{May 2006, version 1.0} \maketitle \section*{Tabbing to fixed positions in a paragraph} Two new text positioning commands are defined: \cs{tabto} and \cs{tab}. \vspace*{\baselineskip} \noindent\cmdinvoke{tabto}{\meta{length}} Tab to a position relative to the left margin in a paragraph (any indentation due to a list is part of the `margin' in this context). If the text on the line already goes past the desired position, the tab starts a new line and moves to the requested horizontal position. \vspace*{\baselineskip} \noindent\cmdinvoke{tabto*}{\meta{length}} Similar to \cs{tabto}, except it will perform backspacing, and over- print previous text on the line whenever that text is already longer than the specified length (i.e., no linebreak is produced). Line-breaks are suppressed immediately after \cs{tabto} or \cs{tabto*}. \vspace*{\baselineskip} \noindent\cs{tab} Tab to the next tab-stop chosen from a list of tab positions, in the traditional style of typewriters. A \cs{tab} will always move to the next tab stop (or the next line), even if it is already exactly at a tab stop. Thus, ``\cs{tab}\cs{tab}'' skips a position. A linebreak is permitted immediately following a \cs{tab}, in case the ensuing text does not fit well in the remaining space. The tab-stop positions are declared using either \cs{TabPositions} or \cs{NumTabs}: \vspace*{\baselineskip} \noindent\cmdinvoke{TabPositions}{\meta{length}, \meta{length}, ... \meta{length}} Declares the tab stops as a comma-separated list of positions relative to the left margin. A tab-stop at \texttt{0pt} is implicit, and need not be listed. \vspace*{\baselineskip} \noindent\cmdinvoke{NumTabs}{\meta{number}} Declares a list of \meta{number} equally-spaced tabs, starting at the left margin and spanning \cs{linewidth}. For example \cmdinvoke{NumTabs}{2} declares tab-stops at \texttt{0pt} and \texttt{0.5}\cs{linewidth}, the same as \cmdinvoke{TabPositions}{\texttt{0pt}, \texttt{0.5}\cs{linewidth}} or \cmdinvoke{TabPositions}{\texttt{0.5}\cs{linewidth}} \end{document}