Hangindent and justfied multiline text in single cell of table












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I have quite a lot of text that I want to format in a readable manner in a single cell of a table, so I want to use hangindents. But in addition to that I want to make the text justified, but this is not working. If I use usepackage{ragged2e} and then change raggedright to justify, all hell breaks loose.



In order to have the hangindent, I needed to make a customnewline command, to repeat the hangindent (see difference between left and right column).



How can I combine this all, so make the text 'hang' and justified?



Note: It is quite a large table, which I am creating using Excel2LaTeX, so I would like to make the least amount of changes possible... That's why I changed the columntype.



documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}

usepackage{booktabs}
usepackage{multirow}
usepackage{tabularx}

begin{document}

% define new column type
newcolumntype{Y}[1]{>{small hangindent=1em raggedright letnewline\arraybackslash}p{#1}}

% define newline to use hangindent on new line
newcommand{customnewline}{newline hangindent=1em}

renewcommand{arraystretch}{1.3}


begin{table}[htbp]
centering
caption{Example}
begin{tabular}{Y{15em}Y{15em}}
toprule
multicolumn{1}{c}{textbf{customnewline}} & multicolumn{1}{c}{textbf{normal newline}} \
midrule
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent customnewline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well & A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent newline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well \
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent customnewline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well & A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent newline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well \
bottomrule
end{tabular}%
label{tab:addlabel}%
end{table}%

end{document}


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  • Welcome to TeX.SE. Your objectives aren't entirely clear. E.g., you write "A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent", but the material isn't [fully] justified; instead, it is set ragged-right. Please clarify.

    – Mico
    Dec 2 '18 at 10:52











  • Well, that is the problem, if I set it to justify in newcolumntype, only half the table shows. So how can I change the column definition in such a way that the text will be justified?

    – rinkert
    Dec 2 '18 at 10:56
















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I have quite a lot of text that I want to format in a readable manner in a single cell of a table, so I want to use hangindents. But in addition to that I want to make the text justified, but this is not working. If I use usepackage{ragged2e} and then change raggedright to justify, all hell breaks loose.



In order to have the hangindent, I needed to make a customnewline command, to repeat the hangindent (see difference between left and right column).



How can I combine this all, so make the text 'hang' and justified?



Note: It is quite a large table, which I am creating using Excel2LaTeX, so I would like to make the least amount of changes possible... That's why I changed the columntype.



documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}

usepackage{booktabs}
usepackage{multirow}
usepackage{tabularx}

begin{document}

% define new column type
newcolumntype{Y}[1]{>{small hangindent=1em raggedright letnewline\arraybackslash}p{#1}}

% define newline to use hangindent on new line
newcommand{customnewline}{newline hangindent=1em}

renewcommand{arraystretch}{1.3}


begin{table}[htbp]
centering
caption{Example}
begin{tabular}{Y{15em}Y{15em}}
toprule
multicolumn{1}{c}{textbf{customnewline}} & multicolumn{1}{c}{textbf{normal newline}} \
midrule
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent customnewline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well & A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent newline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well \
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent customnewline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well & A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent newline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well \
bottomrule
end{tabular}%
label{tab:addlabel}%
end{table}%

end{document}


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  • Welcome to TeX.SE. Your objectives aren't entirely clear. E.g., you write "A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent", but the material isn't [fully] justified; instead, it is set ragged-right. Please clarify.

    – Mico
    Dec 2 '18 at 10:52











  • Well, that is the problem, if I set it to justify in newcolumntype, only half the table shows. So how can I change the column definition in such a way that the text will be justified?

    – rinkert
    Dec 2 '18 at 10:56














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I have quite a lot of text that I want to format in a readable manner in a single cell of a table, so I want to use hangindents. But in addition to that I want to make the text justified, but this is not working. If I use usepackage{ragged2e} and then change raggedright to justify, all hell breaks loose.



In order to have the hangindent, I needed to make a customnewline command, to repeat the hangindent (see difference between left and right column).



How can I combine this all, so make the text 'hang' and justified?



Note: It is quite a large table, which I am creating using Excel2LaTeX, so I would like to make the least amount of changes possible... That's why I changed the columntype.



documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}

usepackage{booktabs}
usepackage{multirow}
usepackage{tabularx}

begin{document}

% define new column type
newcolumntype{Y}[1]{>{small hangindent=1em raggedright letnewline\arraybackslash}p{#1}}

% define newline to use hangindent on new line
newcommand{customnewline}{newline hangindent=1em}

renewcommand{arraystretch}{1.3}


begin{table}[htbp]
centering
caption{Example}
begin{tabular}{Y{15em}Y{15em}}
toprule
multicolumn{1}{c}{textbf{customnewline}} & multicolumn{1}{c}{textbf{normal newline}} \
midrule
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent customnewline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well & A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent newline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well \
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent customnewline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well & A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent newline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well \
bottomrule
end{tabular}%
label{tab:addlabel}%
end{table}%

end{document}


table MVCE example










share|improve this question














I have quite a lot of text that I want to format in a readable manner in a single cell of a table, so I want to use hangindents. But in addition to that I want to make the text justified, but this is not working. If I use usepackage{ragged2e} and then change raggedright to justify, all hell breaks loose.



In order to have the hangindent, I needed to make a customnewline command, to repeat the hangindent (see difference between left and right column).



How can I combine this all, so make the text 'hang' and justified?



Note: It is quite a large table, which I am creating using Excel2LaTeX, so I would like to make the least amount of changes possible... That's why I changed the columntype.



documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}

usepackage{booktabs}
usepackage{multirow}
usepackage{tabularx}

begin{document}

% define new column type
newcolumntype{Y}[1]{>{small hangindent=1em raggedright letnewline\arraybackslash}p{#1}}

% define newline to use hangindent on new line
newcommand{customnewline}{newline hangindent=1em}

renewcommand{arraystretch}{1.3}


begin{table}[htbp]
centering
caption{Example}
begin{tabular}{Y{15em}Y{15em}}
toprule
multicolumn{1}{c}{textbf{customnewline}} & multicolumn{1}{c}{textbf{normal newline}} \
midrule
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent customnewline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well & A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent newline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well \
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent customnewline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well & A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent newline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well \
bottomrule
end{tabular}%
label{tab:addlabel}%
end{table}%

end{document}


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  • Welcome to TeX.SE. Your objectives aren't entirely clear. E.g., you write "A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent", but the material isn't [fully] justified; instead, it is set ragged-right. Please clarify.

    – Mico
    Dec 2 '18 at 10:52











  • Well, that is the problem, if I set it to justify in newcolumntype, only half the table shows. So how can I change the column definition in such a way that the text will be justified?

    – rinkert
    Dec 2 '18 at 10:56



















  • Welcome to TeX.SE. Your objectives aren't entirely clear. E.g., you write "A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent", but the material isn't [fully] justified; instead, it is set ragged-right. Please clarify.

    – Mico
    Dec 2 '18 at 10:52











  • Well, that is the problem, if I set it to justify in newcolumntype, only half the table shows. So how can I change the column definition in such a way that the text will be justified?

    – rinkert
    Dec 2 '18 at 10:56

















Welcome to TeX.SE. Your objectives aren't entirely clear. E.g., you write "A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent", but the material isn't [fully] justified; instead, it is set ragged-right. Please clarify.

– Mico
Dec 2 '18 at 10:52





Welcome to TeX.SE. Your objectives aren't entirely clear. E.g., you write "A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent", but the material isn't [fully] justified; instead, it is set ragged-right. Please clarify.

– Mico
Dec 2 '18 at 10:52













Well, that is the problem, if I set it to justify in newcolumntype, only half the table shows. So how can I change the column definition in such a way that the text will be justified?

– rinkert
Dec 2 '18 at 10:56





Well, that is the problem, if I set it to justify in newcolumntype, only half the table shows. So how can I change the column definition in such a way that the text will be justified?

– rinkert
Dec 2 '18 at 10:56










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You can use a blank line, instead, provided you set up hanging indentation for every paragraph:



documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}

usepackage{booktabs,array}

begin{document}

% define new column type
newcolumntype{Y}[1]{%
>{smallraggedrighteverypar{hangindent=1em}arraybackslash}p{#1}%
}

newcolumntype{Z}[1]{%
>{smalleverypar{hangindent=1em}arraybackslash}p{#1}%
}

% define newline to use hangindent on new line

renewcommand{arraystretch}{1.3}

noindent
begin{tabular}{Y{15em}Z{15em}}
toprule
multicolumn{1}{c}{Ragged right} &
multicolumn{1}{c}{Justified} \
midrule
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
&
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
\
midrule
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
&
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
\
bottomrule
end{tabular}

end{document}


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  • Awesome! Since I didn't want to add blank lines in all my table cells, I changed my customnewline to break the paragraph; newcommand{customnewline}{par}

    – rinkert
    Dec 2 '18 at 12:44













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You can use a blank line, instead, provided you set up hanging indentation for every paragraph:



documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}

usepackage{booktabs,array}

begin{document}

% define new column type
newcolumntype{Y}[1]{%
>{smallraggedrighteverypar{hangindent=1em}arraybackslash}p{#1}%
}

newcolumntype{Z}[1]{%
>{smalleverypar{hangindent=1em}arraybackslash}p{#1}%
}

% define newline to use hangindent on new line

renewcommand{arraystretch}{1.3}

noindent
begin{tabular}{Y{15em}Z{15em}}
toprule
multicolumn{1}{c}{Ragged right} &
multicolumn{1}{c}{Justified} \
midrule
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
&
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
\
midrule
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
&
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
\
bottomrule
end{tabular}

end{document}


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  • Awesome! Since I didn't want to add blank lines in all my table cells, I changed my customnewline to break the paragraph; newcommand{customnewline}{par}

    – rinkert
    Dec 2 '18 at 12:44


















6














You can use a blank line, instead, provided you set up hanging indentation for every paragraph:



documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}

usepackage{booktabs,array}

begin{document}

% define new column type
newcolumntype{Y}[1]{%
>{smallraggedrighteverypar{hangindent=1em}arraybackslash}p{#1}%
}

newcolumntype{Z}[1]{%
>{smalleverypar{hangindent=1em}arraybackslash}p{#1}%
}

% define newline to use hangindent on new line

renewcommand{arraystretch}{1.3}

noindent
begin{tabular}{Y{15em}Z{15em}}
toprule
multicolumn{1}{c}{Ragged right} &
multicolumn{1}{c}{Justified} \
midrule
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
&
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
\
midrule
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
&
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
\
bottomrule
end{tabular}

end{document}


enter image description here






share|improve this answer
























  • Awesome! Since I didn't want to add blank lines in all my table cells, I changed my customnewline to break the paragraph; newcommand{customnewline}{par}

    – rinkert
    Dec 2 '18 at 12:44
















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You can use a blank line, instead, provided you set up hanging indentation for every paragraph:



documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}

usepackage{booktabs,array}

begin{document}

% define new column type
newcolumntype{Y}[1]{%
>{smallraggedrighteverypar{hangindent=1em}arraybackslash}p{#1}%
}

newcolumntype{Z}[1]{%
>{smalleverypar{hangindent=1em}arraybackslash}p{#1}%
}

% define newline to use hangindent on new line

renewcommand{arraystretch}{1.3}

noindent
begin{tabular}{Y{15em}Z{15em}}
toprule
multicolumn{1}{c}{Ragged right} &
multicolumn{1}{c}{Justified} \
midrule
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
&
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
\
midrule
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
&
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
\
bottomrule
end{tabular}

end{document}


enter image description here






share|improve this answer













You can use a blank line, instead, provided you set up hanging indentation for every paragraph:



documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}

usepackage{booktabs,array}

begin{document}

% define new column type
newcolumntype{Y}[1]{%
>{smallraggedrighteverypar{hangindent=1em}arraybackslash}p{#1}%
}

newcolumntype{Z}[1]{%
>{smalleverypar{hangindent=1em}arraybackslash}p{#1}%
}

% define newline to use hangindent on new line

renewcommand{arraystretch}{1.3}

noindent
begin{tabular}{Y{15em}Z{15em}}
toprule
multicolumn{1}{c}{Ragged right} &
multicolumn{1}{c}{Justified} \
midrule
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
&
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
\
midrule
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
&
A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent

And there some more text in the same cell that I want to
hangindent as well
\
bottomrule
end{tabular}

end{document}


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  • Awesome! Since I didn't want to add blank lines in all my table cells, I changed my customnewline to break the paragraph; newcommand{customnewline}{par}

    – rinkert
    Dec 2 '18 at 12:44





















  • Awesome! Since I didn't want to add blank lines in all my table cells, I changed my customnewline to break the paragraph; newcommand{customnewline}{par}

    – rinkert
    Dec 2 '18 at 12:44



















Awesome! Since I didn't want to add blank lines in all my table cells, I changed my customnewline to break the paragraph; newcommand{customnewline}{par}

– rinkert
Dec 2 '18 at 12:44







Awesome! Since I didn't want to add blank lines in all my table cells, I changed my customnewline to break the paragraph; newcommand{customnewline}{par}

– rinkert
Dec 2 '18 at 12:44




















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