[OS X TeX] \hfill confusion

[Claus Gerhardt]

Don't load parskip.

Claus


On Aug 8, 2011, at 16:37, Vic Norton wrote:

> I am confused about \hfill. On my system it won't push a minipage all the way to the right. Here is an illustrative script.
> 
>   \documentclass{article} 
>   \usepackage[parfill]{parskip}
>   \thispagestyle{empty}
> 
>   \begin{document}
>   xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx
>   xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx
> 
>   \begin{minipage}{2.0in}
>   xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx
>   \end{minipage}
>   \hfill
>   \begin{minipage}{2.0in}
>   xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx
>   \end{minipage}
> 
>   \end{document}
> 
> The second minipage does not get pushed to the right-hand border. So how do I push a minipage to the right-hand border of a page?
> 
> I'm attaching a picture of the output of the above script.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vic
> 
> <hfill-minpage.png>
> 
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