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author | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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committer | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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diff --git a/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/4_5/letter.tex b/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/4_5/letter.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..71918dc516 --- /dev/null +++ b/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/4_5/letter.tex @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +\title{Letter to the Editor} +\author{} +\def\latexword#1{\texttt{#1}} + +\begin{Article} +In her article on `Table design' in \BV~4.4, Siep Kroonenberg says that +`\verb+\raggedright+ simply doesn't work in a tabular environment' and suggests +some difficult ways to get round this. I disagree: \verb+\raggedright+ works +perfectly well in a tabular environment so long as the current entry ends with +\verb+&+. If your ragged right entry is not in the final column then you can +put \verb+&+ after it even if you intend to have no more entries in that row. +If you want any raggedright entries in the final column, the easiest way round +the problem is to add a dummy column at the end of the \latexword{tabular} +specification: for example, instead of saying +\verb+\begin{tabular}{... p{2in}}+ +you could put +\verb+\begin{tabular}{... p{2in}c}+ +or even +\verb+\begin{tabular}{... p{2in}@{}c@{}}+ +if you are fussy about unwanted extra space. +When you are entering information in the tabular environment, you can forget +about the extra dummy column except when the old final column has a ragged +right entry, in which case that entry must finish with \verb+&\\+ instead of +just \verb+\\+. + +\leftline{\hfill \emph{R.~A.~Bailey}} +\end{Article} |