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What is the best way to make a table/list that looks like this:

1. Item 1
        subitem      type    date
        subitem      type    date

2. Item 2
        subitem      type    date
        subitem      type    date
...

The subitems, types and dates should be aligned. I'm using the article document class with no special fonts.

Werner
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richtera
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  • Can you provide more details? Not sure I understand about the subitems. – Peter Grill Mar 14 '12 at 18:32
  • In case you are looking for it, I have deleted my earlier answer as it contained an extra level of list nesting that is not needed since you are not numbering the sub items, in which case @GonzaloMedina's solution is cleaner. – Peter Grill Mar 14 '12 at 23:13
  • I noticed that you have received answers to your questions but you haven't accepted any of them; please consider doing so. – Gonzalo Medina Mar 14 '12 at 23:43

1 Answers1

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You can simply use the standard enumerate and tabular environments:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}
  \item Item 1 \par
  \begin{tabular}{p{0.25\linewidth}p{0.25\linewidth}p{0.25\linewidth}}
    subitem & type & date \\
    subitem & type & date \\
  \end{tabular}
  \item Item 2 \par
  \begin{tabular}{p{0.25\linewidth}p{0.25\linewidth}p{0.25\linewidth}}
    subitem & type & date \\
    subitem & type & date \\
  \end{tabular}
  \item Item 3 \par
  \begin{tabular}{p{0.25\linewidth}p{0.25\linewidth}p{0.25\linewidth}}
    subitem & type & date \\
    subitem & type & date \\
  \end{tabular}
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

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Another option, if you want automatic calculation for the column width, would be to use the tabularx package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}
  \item Item 1 \par
  \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{XXX}
    subitem & type & date \\
    subitem & type & date \\
  \end{tabularx}
  \item Item 2 \par
  \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{XXX}
    subitem & type & date \\
    subitem & type & date \\
  \end{tabularx}
  \item Item 3 \par
  \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{XXX}
    subitem & type & date \\
    subitem & type & date \\
  \end{tabularx}
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

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Moriambar
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Gonzalo Medina
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  • Of course, it would be better to put \newenvironment{mysubitem}{\begin{tabularx}{XXX}}{\end{tabularx}} in your preamble and use \begin{mysubitem} instead of \begin{tabularx}{XXX} and \end{mysubitem} instead of \end{tabularx}. Becuase if you will have later wanted to change the spacing or whatever, you only modify your definition of mysubitem instead of changing all occurences or tabularx. – yo' Mar 15 '12 at 22:09