Hi all, I'm having an annoying minor issue with latex that I just can't
seem to get past and was hoping to tap the collective wisdom of slug
once more for a Clue.
I'm writing a template for an invoice that we will send to the customer.
It's in landscape format and has a lefthand section (with all the
details fo the order and price etc - which the customer keeps) and a
righthand section (which is a summary section that is torn off by the
customer and sent in with their payment).
Each side has some complicated stuff in it for layout, so I decided to
write two \minipage sections and then use a tabular for left/right
layout. I've put each \minipage into its own \newcommand just to make
layout look simpler so at its simplest form I have:
\begin{tabular}{l|r}
\makeleftpage & \makerightpage \\
\end{tabular}
Now when the leftpage function has just, say, some text in it - there's
no problem. They display nicely to the left/right of each other - no
matter how complicated the right-hand page is. However, the moment that
I added the \minipage to the left-hand side it all broke. the left and
right-hand side overlap one another (the text printing over the top of
the other text).
\newcommand{\makerightpage}{
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
whatever\\
whatever\\
whatever\\
\end{minipage}
}
so this works:
\newcommand{\makeleftpage}{
some text here
}
and this doesn't:
\newcommand{\makeleftpage}{
\begin{minipage}{0.75\textwidth}
whatever\\
whatever\\
whatever\\
\end{minipage}
}
though it's hard to see as the line doesn't expand across the whole
page. A more complete example is given at the bottom of this email so
you can compile it and see what it looks like.
is there something that I have misunderstood in how these things work?
Does anybody know of the way that it should be done instead?
Cheers and thanks,
Taryn
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{a4}
\begin{document}
\newcommand{\makerightpage}{
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
whatever\\
whatever\\
whatever\\
\end{minipage}
}
\newcommand{\makeleftpage}{
\begin{minipage}{0.75\textwidth}
%%% Header section %%%
\begin{tabular}{lcr}
\parbox{5cm}{ % customer details and address
Insured Name here\\
Customer name here\\
Street address here\\
Suburb, State PCD}
&
Logo here
&
\begin{tabular}{ll} % policy identifiers
Date: & policy date here\\
Invoice No: & 0510abcdef\\
Policy No: & NSW 0510 ghijkl \\
Amount: & \$ AAA.aa\\
\end{tabular}
\\ %%% end of header section row %%%
\end{tabular}
\end{minipage}
}
\begin{tabular}{l|r}
\makeleftpage & \makerightpage \\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
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