Latex minipage to align groups of text

Question

I am trying to get two minipage sections to show up next to each other. They always show up one underneath the other currently below is an example of my .tex

Example:

\begin{minipage}[b]{1in} Hello World akdjfasljdfkjasjdfjsadkflkjksadflkaskjdfsadlflkjsafdalkjsfd \end{minipage} \begin{minipage}[b]{1in} Hello World akdjfasljdfkjasjdfjsadkflkjksadflkaskjdfsadlflkjsafdalkjsfd \end{minipage}

Answer 1

Larry,

When I run the following through pdfLaTeX I get a document with two vertical columns, aligned next to one another;

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}[b]{1in} Hello World
akdjfasljdfkjasjdfjsadkflkjksadflkaskjdfsadlflkjsafdalkjsfd \end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}[b]{1in} Hello World
akdjfasljdfkjasjdfjsadkflkjksadflkaskjdfsadlflkjsafdalkjsfd \end{minipage}
\end{document}

In the future, please use code tags around your examples.

Thanks, Noah

Answer 2

You could also just set them in a two column table:

\begin{tabular}{ p{0.5\textwidth} p{0.5\textwidth} }

column one blah blab blah

&

column two blah blab blah

\tabularnewline
\end{tabular}