Vertical spacing without new line [closed]

Question

I am new to LaTeX and have a weird task. I need to write a line between two others. Think of like that:

foo boo doo(1)

              you soup pope(3)

doo boo foo(2)

But the thing is I am not allowed to add a new line between (1) and (2). In other words, (3) must be in between. How do I do such a thing?

Answer 1

If I understood your question correctly, then here is your answer: use a raisebox in an llap. Working example:

\documentclass{minimal}

\begin{document}
\noindent foo boo doo(1)\llap{\raisebox{-2\baselineskip}[0pt][0pt]{doo boo foo(2)}}

\noindent you soup pope(3)

\noindent\phantom{doo boo foo(2)}

\noindent Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, invitamus me missam ne velocitate renovasti dolorum.

\end{document}

Answer 2

You could use a simple minibox environment as follows:

\documentclass[border=2pt]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}{0.3\linewidth}
foo boo doo(1)\\%[0.5cm]
doo boo foo(2)
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.3\linewidth}
    you soup pope(3)
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

which yields:

if you remove the % comment character in the %[0.5cm] you get:

---

If the content happens to be in a table, you could adapt the solution from Table: Can I shift a column by half the height of a row? to yield similar results:

\documentclass[border=2pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{collcell}

\newcommand*{\movedown}[1]{\smash{\raisebox{-1ex}{#1}}}%
\newcolumntype{M}{>{\collectcell\movedown}r<{\endcollectcell}}% (M for Middle)

\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{@{}lM}
foo boo doo(1) & you soup pope(3)\\
doo boo foo(2)\\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

The @{} is simply used to eliminate the column spacing on the left.

Answer 3

Something like this?

\noindent
foo boo doo\\
doo boo foo\\
\raisebox{1.7\baselineskip}[0pt]{\hspace{8em}you soup pope}