[Tex/LaTex] How to vertically (and horizontally) center text of cells using tabularx

horizontal alignmenttablestabularxvertical alignment

My question is very similar to this one: previous question
but when I vary the example a little (as below), my cells are no longer vertically aligned

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{tabularx,booktabs}

\renewcommand\tabularxcolumn[1]{m{#1}}
\newcolumntype{Z}[0]{>{\centering\let\newline\\\arraybackslash\hspace{0pt}}X}%
\newcolumntype{s}[0]{>{\centering\arraybackslash\hsize=.4\hsize}Z}%
\newcolumntype{n}[0]{>{\centering\arraybackslash\hsize=.8\hsize}Z}%


\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\begin{tabularx}{7cm}{s|Z|s|n}
& really really really long\linebreak heading 1 & very very narrow column & \\
\toprule
row 1 & 2314 & 2134 & medium medium column \\ \hline
row 1 & 2314 & 2134 & medium medium  column
\end{tabularx}
\end{table}


\end{document}

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Beware that for resized X cells, the coefficients are like barycentric coordinates and their sum has to be equal to the columns number.

Also, I managed horizontal rules meet vertical rules, and set all rules (vertical as well as horizontal rules but one) to have the width of \midrules, and I simplified your code.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{tabularx,booktabs}

\renewcommand\tabularxcolumn[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{#1}}
\newcolumntype{Z}[0]{>{\hsize=1.55\hsize}X}%
\newcolumntype{s}[0]{>{\hsize=.6\hsize}X}%
\newcolumntype{n}[0]{>{\centering\arraybackslash\hsize=1.25\hsize}X}%


\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\setlength\aboverulesep{0pt} \setlength\belowrulesep{0pt}
\setlength\extrarowheight{2pt}
\begin{tabularx}{7cm}{s!{\vrule width\lightrulewidth}Z!{\vrule width\lightrulewidth}s!{\vrule width\lightrulewidth}n}
& really really really long\linebreak heading 1 & very very narrow column & \\
\toprule
row 1 & 2314 & 2134 & medium medium column \\ \midrule
row 1 & 2314 & 2134 & medium medium column
\end{tabularx}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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A "correct" way could be

\clearpage
\vspace*{\fill}
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The top vertical space should be \vspace*, so it doesn't disappear at the break. The justified text will be on a line width that's 6/10 of the normal line width, change the fraction to suit you.

You can in a similar way decide also for different spaces at the top and at the bottom; for instance

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Text that will be justified
...
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will leave spaces in the proportion 2/3; something of this kind can turn useful for a dedication page, as the dedication is usually not in the center of the page.

If you need that the text inside the minipage has indented paragraphs as the normal text, then center and minipage are not good. This can be accomplished by a more complicated construction:

\documentclass{article}
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\begin{document}

\clearpage
\vspace*{\fill}
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  \rightmargin=.2\textwidth
  \listparindent=\parindent
  \itemindent=\parindent
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Redefine the X column type as m{#1}. I added some vertical padding with cellspace and extrarowheight and gave a decent spacing between caption and table with the caption package.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tabularx, caption}
\usepackage{cellspace}
\setlength\cellspacetoplimit{4pt}
\setlength\cellspacebottomlimit{4pt}
\renewcommand{\tabularxcolumn}[1]{>{\centering}m{#1}}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[h]
  \caption{Test Table}
  \setlength\extrarowheight{2pt}
  \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|X||*{5}{Sc|}}
    \hline
    Holder1 & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{Holder2}& \multicolumn{2}{c|}{Holder3} & Holder4 \\
    \cline{2-5}
                                                         & $\boldsymbol{X}₁$ & $\boldsymbol{X}₁$ & $\boldsymbol{X}₂$ & {$\boldsymbol{X}₂$} & {Holder4 additional} \\
    \cline{1-6}
    \strut abcv abcv abcv abcv abcv abcv ac sf abcv abcv & $\begin{bmatrix} W_{11} \end{bmatrix}$ & $\begin{bmatrix} D_{11} \end{bmatrix}$ & $\begin{bmatrix} K_{12} \end{bmatrix}$ & 0 & 22 \\
    \hline
    abcv abcv abcv abcv abcv abcv ac sf abcv abcv & $\begin{bmatrix} DD_{11} \\ Kl_{21} \end{bmatrix}$ & $\begin{bmatrix} D_{11} \\ D_{21} \end{bmatrix}$ & $\begin{bmatrix} X_{12} \\ S_{22} \end{bmatrix}$ & 0 & 1 \\
    \hline
    \text{text text text} & $\begin{bmatrix} G_{11} & G_{41} \\ G_{21} & G_{51} \\ W_{31} & O_{61} \end{bmatrix}$ & $\begin{bmatrix} G_{11} \\ G_{21} \\ G_{31} \end{bmatrix}$ & $\begin{bmatrix} F_{12} \\ F_{12} \\ X_{12} \end{bmatrix}$ & 0 & 3 \\
    \hline
  \end{tabularx}
  \label{}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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