How do I make a Little Schemer like layout in latex?

Question

I want to make a two-column table that spans the entire page and is laid out something like this:

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Column 1 text         Column 2 text
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Column 1 text         Column 2 text
that wraps.
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Where the equal signs are horizontal rules. For a (better) example of what I'm asking for, see this sample chapter of the Little Schemer. How can I create something similar?

Answer 1

This should get you a good chunk of what you want:

\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{ l l }
  \hline
  The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog & Another example of text \\
  \hline
  The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog & Another example of text \\
\end{tabular*}

Some explanation:

• The tabular* environment lets you set a lot of layout options that the simpler tabular environment doesn't, such as widths.
• The first argument to tabular*, \textwidth, tells LaTeX to use the entire width of the page.
• The second argument, l l , is just like that of tabular.
• The \hline command inserts a horizontal line.