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I'm making a comparison in my essay and met a difficulty which I have trouble in typesetting. The deisred effect is like below (the red lines are auxilary and are not displayed in the final result). I'd appreciate a solution that uses as few extra settings & environments as possible since they may clash with incumbent settings.

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erpxyr2001
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I have tried to add all the details I see from your image, including the spacing between the left column and the dotted line.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{arydshln}


\newcommand\compitem{$\vcenter{\hbox{\tiny \textbullet}}$}


\begin{document}


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\begin{table}[h]
    \centering
    \begin{tabular}{>{\centering}p{0.2\textwidth}>{\centering}p{0.1\textwidth}>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{0.2\textwidth}}
      A & vs. & B \ 
      &&
    \end{tabular}
    \setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{2pt}
    \begin{tabular}{>{\centering}p{0.5cm}p{0.3\textwidth}@{\hspace{2em}}:>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{0.5cm}p{0.3\textwidth}@{\hspace{2em}}}
        \compitem & Difference 1 & \compitem & Difference 1' \
        \compitem & Difference 2: lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum & \compitem & Difference 2': lorem ipsum \
        \compitem & Difference 3: lorem ipsum & \compitem & Difference 3': lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum
    \end{tabular}


\end{table}


Lorem ipsum


\end{document}

Output from the code

I have used answers related to dotted line, fixed width columns, centered bullet, line thickness, adding column space

Nicholas Dalhaug
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