Re: Latex -- Plz help

[William Park <parkw@better.net>]

On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 12:08:41PM +0000, Shao Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
>     I know that I should not fight the layout against latex. But I
> really like to do the following in latex for my resume.
> I tried to use the tabular environment and not very pleased with the
> outcome...
>     I want to do something like this in latex:
> 
> University Courses:
>                         First Year
>                         -        Computing 1A(Functional Programming)
>                         -        Computing 1B(Procefure Programming)
>                         -        Higher Mathematics 1A
>                         -        ....
> 
> Work Experence:
>                         -        Programmer
> at................................................
>                         -        Administrator
> at.........................................
>                         -        help desk at the university of
>                                   New South Walesl................
>                                    and ..............
> 
> I use the following code in latex to produce the about format:
> 
> \begine{supertabular}{ll}
>         University Courses: \\
>                             &First Year \\
>                             &-\hspace{0.5cm} Computing 1A \\
>                             ......
> 
>         Work Experence: \\
>                             &-\hspace{0.5cm} Programmer at...... \\
> 
> I cannot use the tabular with {lll} because I actually want the second
> and the third column overlap. Also, with the above code, latex does not
> automatically break the line for me.... it writes everything in one
> line....
> 
> Please help me....
> 
> 
> Thanks for any advise in advance....(PS. I do have the latex companion
> bood, but could not find anything useful to above)
> 
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Why don't you use list?  Eg.
    \begin{description}
    \item[University Courses:] \\
	\begin{description}
	\item[First Year] \\
	    \begin{itemize}
	    \item Computing 1A (Functional Programming)
	    \item ...
	    \end{itemize}
	\end{description}
    \item[Work Experience:]
	...
    \item[at..............]
	...
    \item[at..............]
	...
    \end{description}