Mrthfx

I'm using longtabu in my resume to display the content in 3 rows. In the first row of type l is the date, the second row contains the description (graduation, team member, ...) and is of the type X (which I redefined to type L to be left aligned) and the last row is of the type r and contains the place (society, university, ...).

In the second row, there should be a multicol spreading across the L and the r column. Here I want to print the graduation paper title or what exactly I've done as an employee. As I need the ability to put in a newline in here, I need the p type for the multicol, but unfortunately this goes ahead with putting in a width for the p{}. I don't know that width as it depends on the content of the previous line so I want to do it automatically.

How can I achieve this result? Having a multicol spreading across the two columns as with the l type, but also allowing the use of newline?

MWE

documentclass{article}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}







% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

% Packages and

% Package options

% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%



usepackage{geometry, tabu, longtable, xparse, parskip}

geometry{%

    verbose,%

    a4paper,%

    tmargin=25mm,%

    bmargin=25mm,%

    lmargin=25mm,%

    rmargin=20mm,%

    nomarginpar,%

    nohead,%

}

newcolumntype{L}{>{raggedrightarraybackslash}X}







% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

% New environment

% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%



NewDocumentEnvironment{entrylist}{m}%

{%

    {LARGEbfseries #1}

    par%

    addvspace{.5em}%

    longtabu{@{} l L r @{}}%

}%

{%



    endlongtabu

    paraddvspace{2em}

}





% %%%%%%%%%%%

% New Command

% %%%%%%%%%%%



newcommand{entryitem}[4]{

    #1

    &

    {bfseries #2}

    &

    {smallcolor{light-gray}{#3}}\

    &

    multicolumn{2}{p{6cm}}{itshape #4}\[.5baselineskip]

}







% %%%%%%%%

% Document

% %%%%%%%%



begin{document}



    begin{entrylist}{Test}

        entryitem

            {2014 textendash 2018}

            {Member of the foo research team}

            {Foo society}

            {Working on a new foo}



        entryitem

            {2014}

            {Graduation to master of bar}

            {Bar school}

            {The juxtaposition of foo and bar}

    end{entrylist}



end{document}

I am not completely sure, if I have adapted the code correctly, but the following example seems to work:

documentclass{article}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}



usepackage{calc}

usepackage{lipsum}



% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

% Packages and

% Package options

% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%



usepackage{geometry, tabu, longtable, xparse, parskip}

geometry{%

    verbose,%

    a4paper,%

    tmargin=25mm,%

    bmargin=25mm,%

    lmargin=25mm,%

    rmargin=20mm,%

    nomarginpar,%

    nohead,%

}

newcolumntype{L}{>{raggedrightarraybackslash}X}







% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

% New environment

% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%



NewDocumentEnvironment{entrylist}{m}%

{%

    {LARGEbfseries #1}

    par%

    addvspace{.5em}%

    longtabu{@{} l L r @{}}%

}%

{%



    endlongtabu

    paraddvspace{2em}

}





% %%%%%%%%%%%

% New Command

% %%%%%%%%%%%



newcommand{entryitem}[4]{

    #1

    &

    {bfseries #2}

    &

    {smallcolor{light-gray}{#3}}\

    &

    multicolumn{2}{p{6cm}}{itshape #4}\[.5baselineskip]

}







% %%%%%%%%

% Document

% %%%%%%%%



begin{document}

makeatletter

newdimenzzz

ifxLT@i@undefined

zzz=8cm

else

globalzzzz@

begingroup

@tempcntaz@

defLT@entry#1#2{%

advance@tempcnta@ne

ifnum@tempcnta=1 globaladvancezzz#2relaxfi

ifnum@tempcnta=2 globaladvancezzz#2relaxfi

}

LT@i

endgroup

advancezzz-2tabcolsep

advancezzz-arrayrulewidth



    begin{entrylist}{Test}

        entryitem

            {2014 textendash 2018}

            {Member of the foo research team}

            {Foo society}

            {Working on a new foo}



        entryitem

            {2014}

            {Graduation to master of bar}

            {Bar school}

            {The juxtaposition of foo and bar}

            & multicolumn{2}{l}{%

rlap{parbox[t]{zzz}{lipsum[2]}}}\

    end{entrylist}



end{document}