How to replicate Tab spacing in latex?

Question

What I mean by Tab spacing is when you put tab spacing "→" (like in some WYSIWYG editor) so the space is flexible but also align text into some kind of measurement. I already know that I can replicate such thing with tabular environment but that's not quite practical since I need to call it repeatedly in many places scattered within document and I'd like to put that into a convenient macros. Is it possible to do such thing in LaTeX? Below is shown my replication in InDesign, tab space shown as "»".

Answer 1

While perhaps not ideal for use throughout the document, the built in tabbing environment is something I often use for this purpose. Within the environment you can use \= to set a tab stop and then on another line you can move through the tab stops using \>. This allows you to create what you're looking for, but you have to manually set the tab stops in your first line.

Short example:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabbing}
    Column One \hspace{1em} \= Column Two \hspace{1em} \= Etc. \\
    Item 1 \> Item 2 \> Item 3
\end{tabbing}
\end{document}