Two column problem

Question

I'm trying to replicate certain part of a scanned book.

However, I'm unable to get two columns, which have enumeratation on the left, line of the right column which is in the parallel with first (part of sentence or a) line of the left part, and are without indentation. I tried with ''parcolumns'', aligning was good, but I was unable to get enumerate to work, also the biggest problem was to turn off indentation. I could fake enumeration, but it would be good if I don't have to. ;) I made screenshot.

I'm grateful for any help.

Answer 1

Here is a possible solution: each item is split into its two components. The enumitem package is optional, but with it it's easier to customize enumerated lists. With the ragged2e package text set ragged right can be hyphenated using \RaggedRight instead of the usual \raggedright.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{ragged2e}

\usepackage{lipsum} % just for the example text

\newcommand{\phrase}[1]{%
  \parbox[t]{\dimexpr.5\linewidth-1em\relax}{\RaggedRight#1\par\kern-\prevdepth}%
  \hspace{2em}\ignorespaces}
\newcommand{\reference}[1]{%
  \parbox[t]{\dimexpr.5\linewidth-1em\relax}{\RaggedRight#1\par\kern-\prevdepth}}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{enumerate}[label=(\arabic*),leftmargin=*]
\item\phrase{Könnten Sie uns genauer schildern, wie der Unfall passiert ist?}
     \reference{Höflichkeit (Vgl. S. 97)}

\item\phrase{Hätte der Autofahrer doch nicht überholt!}
     \reference{Wunschätze (Vgl. S. 97ff.)}

\item\phrase{Wenn der entgegenkommende Fahrer das Lenkrad nicht in letzter
             Sekunde herumgerissen hätte, wären beide Autos frontal
             zusammengestoßen}
     \reference{Konditionalsätze (Vgl. S. 99ff.)}
\end{enumerate}
\lipsum[2]
\end{document}

Answer 2

To avoid entering the numbers by hand (as in Mico's answer) you could write as follows (but the solution is clearly less elegant than egreg's):

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\begin{document}

\newcounter{konj}
    \setcounter{konj}{1}
\newcommand{\Konj}[2]{%
    \smallskip(\thekonj)\stepcounter{konj}
    &#1
    &#2
    }

{\RaggedRight
\begin{tabular}{%
    @{}l@{\hspace{1.5em}}%          Dimensions of col 1 and space btw cols 1&2
    p{.5\textwidth}@{\hspace{1.5em}}%   Dimensions of col 2 and space btw cols 2&3
    p{.4\textwidth}@{}%                 Dimension of col 3
    }
\Konj{K\"onnten Sie die Bratw\"urste bitte etwas l\"anger kochen?}{H\"oflichkeit}\\
\Konj{W\"aren die Bratw\"urste nur etwas l\"anger gekocht worden!}{Wunschs\"atze}\\
\end{tabular}
}

\end{document}

Answer 3

If I understand your setup and objectives correctly, you may be better off using a tabular environment, such as a tabularx environment. The following is an MWE that illustrates how this may be done. (Note: I've updated the code to incorporate Herbert's helpful comments.)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{booktabs,tabularx,ragged2e}
\renewcommand\tabularxcolumn[1]{>{\RaggedRight}p{#1}}
\frenchspacing
\begin{document} 

\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{} l XX @{}}
\toprule
(1) & Könnten Sie uns genauer schildern, wie der Unfall passiert ist?
& Höf"|lichkeit (Vgl. S.~97)\\ % break up f-l ligature
(2) & Hätte der Autofahrer doch nicht überholt!
& Wunschsätze (Vgl. S.~97ff.)\\
(3) & Wenn der entgegenkommende Fahrer das Lenkrad nicht
in letzter Sekunde herumgerissen hätte, wären beide Autos
frontal zusammengestoßen.
& Konditionalsätze (Vgl. S. 99ff.)\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}

Answer 4

as an own environment, allows a pagebreak after each entry if you use the package ltablex instead of tabularx:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[lining]{libertine}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{booktabs,tabularx,ragged2e}
\renewcommand\tabularxcolumn[1]{>{\RaggedRight}p{#1}}
\newcounter{LstCnt}
\newenvironment{Liste}
  {\setcounter{LstCnt}{0}\renewcommand\arraystretch{1.2}\par\noindent%
   \tabularx{\textwidth}{@{\stepcounter{LstCnt}(\arabic{LstCnt})\kern\tabcolsep}Xl@{}}\toprule}
  {\endtabularx\par\noindent\rule{\linewidth}{\heavyrulewidth}\par}

\begin{document} 

\begin{Liste}
Könnten Sie uns genauer schildern, wie der Unfall passiert ist?
  & Höf"|lichkeit (Vgl. S.~\pageref{foo})\\ 

Hätte der Autofahrer doch nicht überholt!
  & Wunschsätze (Vgl. S.~\pageref{bar})\\

Wenn der entgegenkommende Fahrer das Lenkrad nicht in letzter Sekunde 
herumgerissen hätte, wären beide Autos frontal zusammengestoßen.
  & Konditionalsätze (Vgl. S.~\pageref{baz})
\end{Liste}

\newpage\null\label{foo}\newpage\null\label{bar}\newpage\null\label{baz}% only for demo

\end{document}