I need to align my table with the left margin of my page. The adjustbox
package looks to be the solution, but I'm having difficulty implementing it. I realize my question is potentially a duplicate to this one, How to left-align a table in LaTeX, but I'm still unsure how to execute this.
MWE:
\documentclass[doc,12pt,floatsintext,longtable,natbib]{apa6}
\usepackage[doublespacing]{setspace} %automatically makes figure/table captions single space.
\usepackage{adjustbox} % Potential solution?
\usepackage{showframe}
\usepackage{lipsum} % dummy text only
\geometry{reset, letterpaper, height=9in, width=6in, hmarginratio=1:1, vmarginratio=1:1, marginparsep=0pt, marginparwidth=0pt, headheight=15pt}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\section{LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS}
\vspace{0.5in}
\begin{adjustbox}{left=-0.25cm}
\begin{tabular}{ l l }
AUC & Area under the curve \\
AOU & American Ornithologists' Union \\
AR5 & Fifth Assessment Report \\
BRT & Boosted regression trees \\
cAUC & Calibrated area under the curve \\
CMIP5 & Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 \\
GAM & Generalized additive model \\
GBIF & Global Biodiversity Information Facility \\
GCM & General circulation model \\
GIS & Geographic information systems \\
IPCC & International Panel on Climate Change \\
MaxEnt & Maximum entropy \\
PRISM & Parameter-Elevation Relationships on Independent Slopes Model \\
RF & Random forest regression trees \\
RCP & Representative concentration pathway \\
SDM & Species distribution model \\
\end{tabular}
\end{adjustbox}
\vspace{0.25in}
\lipsum
\end{document}
As you can see with the showframe
package, the tabular
environment isn't fully left-justified as is the text. I would like the tabular
environment to be positioned like the text.
Best Answer
No need to use the facilities of the
adjustbox
package; use\noindent
instead, and set up thetabular
's structure as\begin{tabular}{@{} l l }
.I'd say, incidentally, that
apa6
is a reasonably well known document class; I wouldn't call it "nonstandard".By the way, if you need the material in the table to be single-spaced, I'd encase the
tabular
environment in atable
environment, as follows:If you go this route, the
\noindent
instruction isn't needed.