[Tex/LaTex] Raggedright not working inside a table

horizontal alignmentragged2etables

I have a table and i want to align elements left.
This is my code :

\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
  \hline 
   Priorité&Description \\
   \hline
   \multirow{4}{16 mm }{\centering 0}
   & \tabitem \raggedright Documentation.\tabularnewline 
   & \raggedleft \tabitem  Analyse et critique de quelques navigateurs pour enfants existant.\tabularnewline 
   & \raggedleft \tabitem  Description de la solution souhaitée.\tabularnewline 
   & \raggedleft \tabitem  Modélisation et implémentation de la base de données.\tabularnewline 
  \hline
  \multirow{2}{8 mm }{\centering 1}
  & \raggedleft \tabitem Conception et développement du navigateur.\tabularnewline 
  & \raggedleft \tabitem Globalisation du navigateur.\tabularnewline 
 \hline
 \multirow{2}{8 mm }{\centering 2}
 & \raggedleft \tabitem Conception et développement du Dashboard administrative.\tabularnewline 
 & \raggedleft \tabitem Conception et développement du Dashboard parental.\tabularnewline 
\hline
\centering 3&
\raggedleft \tabitem Intégration du navigateur avec le projet Famissima.\tabularnewline
\hline
\end{tabular}

can anyone help me.
and this is the \tabitem:

\usepackage{booktabs}
\newcommand{\tabitem}{~~\llap{\textbullet}~~}

Best Answer

You have to use pcolumn type to get \raggedright/left working. Also, if you are adding \tabitem in every cell of a column, add it to the column specifier (an array package feature) instead of repeating it. \arraybackslash will allow you to use \\ as usual.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array,multirow,calc}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\newcommand{\tabitem}{~~\llap{\textbullet}~~}
\newlength\mylength
\setlength{\mylength}{\widthof{Priorité}}
\begin{document}
\noindent
  \begin{tabular}{|c|>{\raggedleft \tabitem\arraybackslash}p{\dimexpr\textwidth-\mylength-4\tabcolsep-3\arrayrulewidth\relax}|}
  \hline
   Priorité& \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Description} \\
   \hline
   \multirow{4}{*}{0}
   & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{\tabitem Documentation.}\tabularnewline
   &  Analyse et critique de quelques navigateurs pour enfants existant.\tabularnewline
   & Description de la solution souhaitée.\tabularnewline
   & Modélisation et implémentation de la base de données.\tabularnewline
  \hline
  \multirow{2}{*}{1}
  &  Conception et développement du navigateur.\tabularnewline
  & Globalisation du navigateur.\tabularnewline
 \hline
 \multirow{2}{*}{2}
 & Conception et développement du Dashboard administrative.\tabularnewline
 & Conception et développement du Dashboard parental.\tabularnewline
\hline
3&
Intégration du navigateur avec le projet Famissima.\tabularnewline
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

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\raggedright adds infinite glue (0pt plus 1fil) at the end of lines. As jon has commented, this will make hyphenation (next to) impossible, which will result in fewer words per line.

\RaggedRight, on the other hand, adds finite glue (the default is 0pt plus 2em), so hyphenation becomes possible again -- but this won't result in the same hyphenation/line-breaking patterns as with justified text. The reason is that lines that may feature acceptable (for TeX' line-breaking algorithm) interword spacing when using \RaggedRight would become too spaced out for justified text, so TeX will rather choose a solution with one more word squeezed into the respective line. This effect will occur more often if you use microtype and its font expansion feature.

The following example hopefully illustrates this:

With \raggedright (and microtype), the word "fermentum" won't be hypenated, but shifted as a whole to the fourth line of the paragraph.
\RaggedRight allows hyphenation ("fer-mentum").
Justified text plus microtype allows to fit the word "laoreet" in the first line, which in turn allows to fit "fermentum" as a whole in the third line, which will result in a paragraph one line shorter.
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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{ragged2e}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newlength{\saveparindent}
\setlength{\saveparindent}{\parindent}

\makeatletter
\g@addto@macro{\raggedright}{\setlength{\parindent}{\saveparindent}}
\g@addto@macro{\RaggedRight}{\setlength{\parindent}{\saveparindent}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\raggedright
\lipsum[6]

\RaggedRight
\lipsum[6]

\justifying
\lipsum[6]

\microtypesetup{activate=false}
\lipsum[6]

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Relationship of \\, \newline, \raggedright, \RaggedRight, and parindent

ragged2e updates both \newline and \\ to function differently. Before updating, it stores the original set of macros. The original functionality can be reinstated by placing

\makeatletter
\let\@gnewline\@raggedtwoe@saved@gnewline% Restore original functionality of \newline
\let\\\@raggedtwoe@savedcr% Restore original functionality of \\
\makeatother

in your document preamble.

Another idea is to set the contents you want flushed left as part of an unbreakable structure like a tabular. I would guess this seems sufficient as a break across the page within the address might be confusion.

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\documentclass[12pt,article,oneside]{memoir}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\setlength{\RaggedRightParindent}{2em}
\RaggedRight
\checkandfixthelayout

\begin{document}

\noindent
\begin{tabular}{@{}l@{}}
  LastName \\Line 2\\ Line 3\\Line 4\\29 August 2014
\end{tabular}

\section{Lorem Ipsum}

\lipsum[1-2]

And here is my address, that I want to have set flush left with no indentation: \strut

\noindent
\begin{tabular}{@{}l@{}}
  My Name\\ 7999 Any St Apt 3\\Los Angeles CA  99999
\end{tabular}

\noindent
With more text, that also should be flowed in the paragraph, with no indentation, coming after the address. \lipsum[1]

\end{document}

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