latex
Hopefully this is simple: I have a relatively long list where each list item contains very little text. For example:
* a * b * c * d * e * f
I wish to format it like so:
* a * d * b * e * c * f
I would rather not create a table with 2 lists as I want to be able to easily change the list without worrying about updating all the columns.
What is the best way to do this in latex?
It seems to me that what you really want, is to customize the look of the captions. This is most easily done using the caption package. For instructions how to use this package, see the manual (PDF). You would probably need to create your own custom caption format, as described in chapter 4 in the manual.
Edit: Tested with MikTex:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{caption}
\DeclareCaptionFont{white}{\color{white}}
\DeclareCaptionFormat{listing}{\colorbox{gray}{\parbox{\textwidth}{#1#2#3}}}
\captionsetup[lstlisting]{format=listing,labelfont=white,textfont=white}
% This concludes the preamble
\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}[label=some-code,caption=Some Code]
public void here() {
goes().the().code()
}
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}
Result:
Use p{width} for your column specifiers instead of l/r/c.
\begin{tabular}{|p{1cm}|p{3cm}|}
This text will be wrapped & Some more text \\
\end{tabular}
EDIT: (based on the comments)
\begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{p{0.35\linewidth} | p{0.6\linewidth}}
Column 1 & Column2 \\ \hline
This text will be wrapped & Some more text \\
Some text here & This text maybe wrapped here if its tooooo long \\
\end{tabular}
\caption{Caption}
\label{tab:my_label}
\end{table}
we get:
Best Answer
Using the multicol package and embedding your list in a
multicolsenvironment does what you want: