All in a row

It’s not uncommon to want to put a table in the middle of some text. Fortunately TEX makes it easy to do this. In fact there are two separate methods of aligning text. The first is by using the tabbing environment. This is similar to setting the tab stops on a typewriter. Each line is handled individually, according to set tab columns, but with greater flexibility than that provided by a typewriter. The second is the horizontal alignment environment which typesets the whole table at once using a prescribed pattern.