Time for action – lining up information using the tabbing environment

We would like to present a quick overview regarding LaTeX. We shall present one point on each line, aligned at words and double colons:

1. Begin a new document and open a tabbing environment:

   \documentclass{article}
   \begin{document}
   \begin{tabbing}

2. Write the text, set tab stops by \=, and end the line by \\:

   \emph{Info:} \= Software \= : \= \LaTeX \\

3. Add further lines, move to the next tab stop by \>, and again end lines by \\:

     \> Author \> : \> Leslie Lamport \\
     \> Website \> : \> www.latex-project.org

4. Close the tabbing environment and end the document:

   \end{tabbing}
   \end{document}

5. Typeset to get the output:

   

What just happened?

The tabbing environment that we used begins a new line. We used three simple tags for markup:

• \= sets a tab stop. We could put several tab stops on a line. If we use \= later, the next awaited tab stop would be reset to this position.

• \\ ends a row.

• \> goes to the next tab stop. This...