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In the style which I'm sort of copying, dates are printed against the left margin and the entry's heading (which doesn't need to conform to LaTeX sectioning commands) is centered.

I have borrowed code from another answer but it didn't produce what I expected; the centered text is missing (I admit that manipulating this is a bit outside of my wheelhouse.) I don't think that the centering group or center environment are what I want (centering would be it if I didn't need the date to be to the left just inside the margin.

\documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage{showframe} \usepackage{makecell} \newlength{\LeftItem} \newlength{\CenterItem} \newcommand{\entry}[2]{% \par \settowidth{\LeftItem}{ #1}% \settowidth{\CenterItem}{\Large #2}% \noindent \makebox[0pt][l]{\ #1}\hfill \makebox[0pt]{% \ifdim\LeftItem>.5\dimexpr\linewidth-\CenterItem\relax \makecell[t]{\strut \\ #2}% \else \par }% } \begin{document} \entry{25.}{S. Gulielmi Abbatis.} \end{document}

Example of classic book

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as long as your centred text will never be long enough to over-print the number you can simply do

\documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage{showframe} \newcommand{\entry}[2]{% \par \noindent \makebox[0pt][l]{#1}% \makebox[\textwidth]{\Large #2}} \begin{document} \entry{25.}{S. Gulielmi Abbatis.} \end{document}

You were losing the text, and getting a warning about \ifdim not finished as you should have something like #2\fi where you had \par

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  • Thank you, this should work (both do, but for now I prefer this output). Commented Jun 15, 2024 at 22:17
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Why not simply use \hfill{}?

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} \NewDocumentCommand\entry{mm}{ #1\hfill{}#2\hfill{}} \begin{document} \entry{25.}{S. Gulielmi Abbatis.} \end{document}
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  • that does not centre #2 in the page. Commented Jun 15, 2024 at 22:24

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