Achieve the same as hitting tab in word

Question

I want to display

AFM   Atomic force microscope
ii    Information Technology

but i am getting as above there is a shift in position of word 'Atomic' i want it to coe directly under 'Aacef'. How to acieve tht

Answer 1

The idea is to not manually format the list, but let latex do the formatting for you. In theory you could use a table without lines, but instead of reinventing the wheel, use one of the existing packages for abbreviations https://ctan.org/topic/acronym

Here an example using the accro package:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{acro}
\usepackage{array}

\DeclareAcronym{afm}{
  short=AFM,
  long=Atomic force microscope
}

\DeclareAcronym{ii}{
  short=ii,
  long=Information Technology
}

\begin{document}

\printacronyms[display=all,template=tabular]

\end{document}