How can I align stacked minipages horizontally?

Question

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{pgffor}
\usepackage[a4paper,top=0cm,bottom=0cm,left=0cm,right=0cm]{geometry}
\raggedcolumns
\newcommand{\ListItem}[1]{\underline{\makebox[2cm][l]{#1}}}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\vspace{2cm}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

See this post to understand better how minipage alignment works. It's worth the while. — Phelype Oleinik, Mar 13 '18 at 13:40
You might reach a larger pool of people who can answer your questions of you don't use special fonts in your MWE. — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Mar 13 '18 at 15:13
what is the proble?. beside that you set margins to zero (why?) and forgot to insert blank line above \vspace{2cm} other works fine. mini pages are aligned vertically and horizontally. — Zarko, Mar 13 '18 at 16:31

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 13 '18 at 16:30

short answer: use \noindent

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{pgffor}
\usepackage[a4paper,top=0cm,bottom=0cm,left=0cm,right=0cm]{geometry}
\raggedcolumns
\newcommand{\ListItem}[1]{\underline{\makebox[2cm][l]{#1}}}
\begin{document}
\noindent\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\vspace{2cm}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

and if you like to have vertical space between both groups, you should insert blank line before \vspace{2cm} (see my comment above). actually this is sufficient to have mini pages horizontally aligned. — Zarko, Mar 13 '18 at 16:56
In your solution \vspace doesn't work. see @zarko's comment. zarko's solution work well. — alhelal, Mar 13 '18 at 16:57

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 13 '18 at 17:19

to have mini pages horizontally aligned is sufficient to insert blank line before \vspace{2cm} (with this both groups of mini pages is indented)
it is not clear to me, you set margins to zero . to my opinion, specila if you intent print this document, you should have minimal margins, which can prinetrs easily handle. I would use the following preamble:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{pgffor}
\usepackage[a4paper,margin=10mm]{geometry}
\parindent=0mm
\newcommand{\ListItem}[1]{\underline{\makebox[\linewidth][l]{#1}}}

i would make mini pages narrower and for distances between them insert \hfill (with this mini pages are uniform spread over text width

$\hfill$

(red lines indicate page layout).

complete mwe:

    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{multicol}
    \usepackage{pgffor}
    \usepackage[a4paper,margin=15mm]{geometry}
    \parindent=0mm
%    \raggedcolumns
    \newcommand{\ListItem}[1]{\underline{\makebox[\linewidth][l]{#1}}}

%------------- show page layout. don't use this in real document!
\usepackage{showframe}
\renewcommand\ShowFrameLinethickness{0.15pt}
\renewcommand*\ShowFrameColor{\color{red}}
%---------------------------------------------------------------%

\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}{0.2\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}{0.2\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}{0.2\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}{0.2\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}

\vspace{2cm}
\begin{minipage}{0.2\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}{0.2\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}{0.2\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}{0.2\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

Can't you use loop for minipage since each minipage contains same content? — alhelal, Mar 14 '18 at 00:18
yes, it is possible. with use of package \usepackage{pgffor} for example. — Zarko, Mar 14 '18 at 00:35
Then you can make short your answer using this for convenience to others. — alhelal, Mar 14 '18 at 00:43

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 13 '18 at 17:13

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{pgffor}
\usepackage[a4paper,top=0cm,bottom=0cm,left=0cm,right=0cm]{geometry}
\raggedcolumns
\newcommand{\ListItem}[1]{\underline{\makebox[2cm][l]{#1}}}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}

\vspace{1.5cm}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.25\textwidth}
\foreach \x in {Rice,pulse,Salt,Oil,Pepper,Onion,Garlic,Ginger,Salad,Chicken,Spice}
{
\ListItem{\x}\par\bigskip}
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

How can I align stacked minipages horizontally?

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