I wanted to left align my document in such a way that some pages…e.g. Abstract to remain justified, but the rest of the document left aligned. Anyway to do that?
[Tex/LaTex] How to vary alignment in document
horizontal alignment
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If you would like to center all tabular environments, I would recommend to create your own environment with a different name, which calls tabular. You could use that instead of redefining tabular itself.
But no problem, this can be done. Just use \renewenvironment, for example:
\let\originaltabular\tabular
\let\endoriginaltabular\endtabular
\renewenvironment{tabular}[1]{%
\begingroup%
\centering%
\originaltabular{#1}}%
{\endoriginaltabular\endgroup}
This as addition to your first try redefining tabular.
You could redefine the floating table environment very similar:
\let\originaltable\table
\let\endoriginaltable\endtable
\renewenvironment{table}[1][ht]{%
\originaltable[#1]
\centering}%
{\endoriginaltable}
You could also use etoolbox to patch the table environment or append \centering to the definition this way:
\makeatletter
\g@addto@macro{\table}{\centering}
\makeatother
or
\expandafter\def\expandafter\table\expandafter{\table\centering}
Just use:
\raggedright
right after \begin{document}
The flushleft environment effectively sets text in a ragged right list environment. It is defined as:
\def\flushleft{\trivlist \raggedright\item\relax}
\def\endflushleft{\endtrivlist}
The \raggedright command does the actual work:
\def\raggedright{%
\let\\\@centercr\@rightskip\@flushglue \rightskip\@rightskip
\leftskip\z@skip
\parindent\z@}
Setting text this way will lead to some ugly looking lines. The ragged2e package provides the \RaggedRight command (and corresponding) FlushLeft environment that solves some of these problems. I would recommend using it instead of just \raggedright.
To see the differences between \raggedright and \RaggedRight here's a small sample document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{hyphenat}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}[t]{.4\textwidth}
\textbf{raggedright with no hyphenation}\par
\raggedright
\blindtext
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[t]{.4\textwidth}
\textbf{RaggedRight with hyphenation}\par
\RaggedRight
\blindtext
\end{minipage}
\end{document}
Both \raggedright and \RaggedRight set the paragraph indent to zero. With ragged2e this is controllable with the length \RaggedRightParindent which can be set to equal the regular \parindent in the following way:
\setlength{\RaggedRightParindent}{\parindent}
To do this with regular \raggedright you could do the following:
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\newlength{\rrindent}
\setlength{\rrindent}{\parindent}
\apptocmd{\raggedright}{\setlength{\parindent}{\rrindent}}{}{}
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