4.6 Tabbing
The tabbing environment lets you create tab stops so that you
can tab to a particular distance from the left margin. Within the
tabbing environment, you can use the command \= to set a tab
stop, \> to jump to the next tab stop, \< to go
back a tab stop, \+ to shift the left border by one tab stop
to the right, \- to shift the left border by one tab stop to
the left. In addition, \\ will start a new line and
\kill will set any tabs stops defined in that line, but will
not typeset the line itself.
Note:
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You may recall two of the above commands from Volume 1:
\- was described as a discretionary hyphen
in Hyphenation and \= was
described as the macron accent command in
Special Characters and Symbols.
These two commands take on different meanings when they are used in
the tabbing environment.[Accents misbehave in
tabbing] If you want accents in your
tabbing environment, either use the inputenc
package (see Volume 1) or use \a<accent symbol>{<c>},
for example \a"{u} instead of
\"{u}.
Example:
This produces the following output:
Another Example:
This example sets up four tab stops, but ignores the first line:
This produces the following output:
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