[texhax] One (more) question about \halign

[Donald Arseneau]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina at gmail.com> writes:

> >>> \halign to \hsize{%
> >>>          \rm\rlap{1.2}\ \ \ \ \ \ \
> >>>          \vbox{\parindent=0pt\hsize=105mm\hangindent 0em\strut%
> >>>                #\hfill\strut}%
> >>>        \tabskip=0cm plus20cm minus20cm&\hfil#\tabskip=0pt\cr
> >>>        bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
> >>>        bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla&bnbnbnbnb\cr}
> 
> In other words, I want
> 
>          \rm\rlap{1.2}\ \ \ \ \ \ \
>
> to be on the first line, and `bnbnbnbnb' (the second alignment argument) on the
> second line.  Is that possible, and with what trick?

Put it inside the vbox and use \llap instead of \rlap.

\vbox{...\noindent\llap{1.2\ \ \ }\strut #...

(Actually, for a TOC it is better to use paragraph parameters and no
boxes or alignments. Then you have to pre-measure your page numbers
and section numbers, but that is inevitable even with halign because
you have to set the \hsize.)

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Donald Arseneau                          asnd at triumf.ca