Equally split the aligned items in tasks package

Question

Problem

I am now updating my resume and I found tasks package is a good choice to list my research interests in the same line (which could save a lot of space). Even though I basically got what I want, it seems that three items I list did not have same horizontal space and this makes it a little unsatisfactory.

What I Have Done

I checked the doc of the tasks package and especially the figure shown below, but it seems that we could not restrict the text width of each bullet point.

Did I miss something? Any input is appreciated.

MWE

\documentclass{article}
% EDIT
\usepackage[margin=0.5in, nohead]{geometry}
\usepackage{tasks}
\settasks{item-indent=3em, label-offset=0em, column-sep=2em}

\begin{document}
\begin{tasks}[style=itemize](3)
\task Gaussian process machine learning \task Statistical learning theory  \task (Non)-convex optimization
\end{tasks}
\end{document}

@marmot I tried tabular when I didn't know tasks package exist, but I find it pretty ugly. — Mr.Robot, Mar 30 '19 at 01:08
@marmot Sorry for the confusion, the code is just taken from my resume and I forgot to add margin setting. Already added it. — Mr.Robot, Mar 30 '19 at 02:27
Thanks for your MWE! Do you want something like \hspace{1em}\textbullet~~Gaussian process machine learning\hfill \textbullet~~Statistical learning theory\hfill \textbullet~~(Non)-convex optimization\hspace{1em}\par ? — , Mar 30 '19 at 02:34
You're welcome! (Please let me know if you think I should write an official answer.) — , Mar 30 '19 at 03:36

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '19 at 14:35

The tasks are equal width, but Gaussian process machine learning is too wide and there's no feasible line break point. Indeed you get a warning about

Overfull \hbox (11.3392pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 34--34
[]|\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 Gaussian pro-cess ma-chine learning|

Fix: use \raggedright. In the code below, the first part sets rules to visually check the spacing.

\documentclass{article}
% EDIT
\usepackage[margin=0.5in, nohead]{geometry}
\usepackage{tasks}
\settasks{
  item-indent=3em,
  label-offset=0em,
  column-sep=2em,
}

\begin{document}

\noindent
\makebox[\textwidth][s]{%
\smash{\vrule height 0pt depth 10cm}%
\leaders\hrule\hfill
\smash{\vrule height 0pt depth 10cm}%
\leaders\hrule\hfill
\smash{\vrule height 0pt depth 10cm}%
\leaders\hrule\hfill
\smash{\vrule height 0pt depth 10cm}%
}

\subsection*{Bad}

\begin{tasks}[style=itemize](3)
\task Gaussian process machine learning 
\task Statistical learning theory  
\task (Non)-convex optimization
%
\task (Non)-convex optimization
\task Statistical learning theory  
\task Gaussian process machine learning 
\end{tasks}

\subsection*{Better}

\begin{tasks}[style=itemize,item-format=\raggedright](3)
\task Gaussian process machine learning 
\task Statistical learning theory  
\task (Non)-convex optimization
%
\task (Non)-convex optimization
\task Statistical learning theory  
\task Gaussian process machine learning 
\end{tasks}

\end{document}

You may want to add item-format=\raggedright to the \settasks initialization.

Equally split the aligned items in tasks package

Problem

What I Have Done

MWE

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