Consider the following document with an itemized list with two words per item:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item arbitrary, archipelago
\item bug, bit
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
This prints as follows:
I would like the second word on every item row to be a fixed distance apart, so that the outcome will look like this:
I can accomplish this effect with \hspace
:
\item arbitrary,\hspace{4.2cm}archipelago
\item bug,\hspace{5cm}bit
but this is too much work and unwieldy, as the spaces need to be tailored for every combination of words.
I can use a table with textbullet
:
\begin{tabular}{l@{\hskip 4cm}l}
\textbullet\ arbitrary, & archipelago \\
\textbullet\ bug, & bit \\
\end{tabular}
but the formatting is not the same as a list:
Note the distance of the bullet points from the left margin, the distance between the bullet points and the beginning of the text, and the distance between the rows.
\begin{tabular}{ @{} l@{\hskip 4cm}l} \textbullet\ arbitrary, & archipelago \\ \textbullet\ bug, & bit \\ \end{tabular}
?\textbulet
or nestitemize
in the table.