I really want to use the following overleaf template:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/examples/sample-apa-paper/wbzdqpgxszqs#.WRby39zfPIV
(Sample APA paper)
But unfortunately, the text is left rigged and I want it to be justified.
I assumed that justified text is latex's default, so I concluded that in this template leftrigged must be on but I cannot find it.
Does someone know a solution?
[Tex/LaTex] Justifying text in overleaf template
horizontal alignment
Related Solutions
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}}{}{}
use the array package then you can use
\begin{tabular}{|c|>{\raggedright}p{6.5cm}|c|}
Best Answer
APA guidelines require ragged papers. If you want your text to be justified, you will not get a document complying to APA rules, but a close hit.
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