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I want to have the following text alignment and I don't want to use any "two column" and table because an environment I use doesn't support them. :(

The text format looks like the picture below. Basically I want to split a line in the middle, and for a line of text there will be 2 parts: the 1st part is on the left and the 2nd part is on the right. However, there are some lines which have long text and I don't want to split them to two parts, thus they will not split.

Thanks a lot for help!

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  • Take a look into the tabbing environment. – Daniel Feb 19 '13 at 15:27
  • What do you mean by "the environment I use doesn't support them"? Any LaTeX system supports the tabular environment. – egreg Feb 19 '13 at 15:27
  • It's a non-official package which support traditional chineses note (known as warichu). The package can be found here: code.google.com/p/gezhu. – Coeus Wang Feb 19 '13 at 15:40
  • It looks tabbing environment also not support. :( – Coeus Wang Feb 19 '13 at 15:44
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You can define a command that manually puts its first argument into the "left column" and the second argument into the "right column.

output

\documentclass{article}
\newcommand*\leftright[2]{%
  \leavevmode
  \rlap{#1}%
  \hspace{0.5\linewidth}%
  #2}
\begin{document}
\leftright{first line part 1}{first line part 2} \par
A longer line that isn't split in two columns \par
\leftright{third line part 1}{third line part 2}
\end{document}
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  • Thanks a lot. Though I can't directly use your solution, but this inspire me. :) I have solve this by only apply this changes to main contents. – Coeus Wang Feb 20 '13 at 3:15

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