Patrick Greenwood wrote:
What I meant to say is I wanted the block "State of Wisconsin County of
Milwaukee" to left-align flush with the left margin of the document.
Uwe Stoehr delivered this solution which is exactly what I needed. It uses
negative space to solve the problem.
instead of -3pt use -0.5\arraycolsep, the it is independent
from documentclass settings.
it is also possible to do it without math ...
Herbert
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I used -0.5
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Before me, this day, came Joe Doaks....
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Another solution with a tabular
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Milwaukee
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Wisconsin
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