[Tex/LaTex] Text spacing altered when using minipage

minipagespacing

Why does the spacing between words alter when using minipage function ?

\documentclass[a4paper, 14pt, oneside]{article}
\usepackage{soul} % Used for the title name (eg. title)
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{marvosym} % add the symbols for email and phone contact data
\usepackage{fancyhdr} % Required for the footer
\usepackage{tabularx} % Nicer table style than the default
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{abstract}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor} % Allows the definition of hex colors

\definecolor{headings}{HTML}{701112} % Dark red color for headings
\definecolor{text1}{HTML}{2b2b2b} % Main document font color, off-black

\usepackage[none]{hyphenat} % Prevents hyphenation in text


\usepackage[margin=10mm,bottom=20mm]{geometry}

\linespread{1.1} % Line spacing

% Sections formatting
\titleformat{\section}{\color{headings}
\scshape\Large\raggedright}{}{0em}{}[\color{black}\titlerule]

\pagestyle{fancy}

% Prevents overfull hbox and vbox
\hbadness=10000
\hfuzz=50pt
\vbadness=10000
\vfuzz=50pt


\renewcommand\headrulewidth{0pt} % Size of the header rule
\renewcommand\footrulewidth{0.001pt} % Size of the footer rule

\usepackage[pdfborder={0 0 0},bookmarks=true,pdftitle={CV},pdfauthor={first last},pdfsubject={Curriculum Vitae},pdfcreator={www.abhij.com},pdfproducer={www.abhij.com}]{hyperref}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%  CV STARTS HERE  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\begin{document}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%  NAME AND CONTACT  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\begin{center}
%Uncomment below to color the \textsl{\textit{\textbf{\emph{\textsc{\textsc{\textsc{headings}}}}}}}
%\color{headings}
%\textsc{\Huge{\so{Abhilash Sukumari}}} \\ % Use for extra spacing inbetween the words.
\textsc{\Huge{First Last}} \\
\vspace{0pt}
\color{text1}{\Large\Telefon} (Area code)-xxx-xxxx \hfill {\Large\Writinghand} Street, Apt \# XXXX, City, EX-7xxxx \hfill {\Large\Letter} \href{mailto:email@email.com}{email@email.com} 

%%%%%% SKILLS  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Start the left-hand side of the page
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\textwidth}
\vspace{0pt} % Trick for alignment
\section{Skills}
\begin{tabularx}{1\linewidth\centering\arraybackslash}{>{\raggedright\scshape}p{2.5cm}X}
\textbf{Something} & Something, Something, Something, Something, C, C++\\
\textbf{Others}  & \LaTeX, \textsc{html}\\
\textbf{Others}  & Something Something (Something), Something Something (Something Something Something)
\end{tabularx}
\end{minipage} % End left-hand side of the page
\hfill
%%%%%%  Tool proficiency  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Start the right-hand side of the page
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\textwidth} 
\vspace{0pt} %trick for alignment
\section{Tools} 
\begin{tabularx}{1\linewidth}{>{\raggedright\scshape}p{1cm}X}
\textbf{Tool}    & Something-Something (Something) $\&$ Something Something \\
\textbf{Others}    & Something, Something Something, Something, Something Something, Something-Something, Something \\
\end{tabularx}

\end{minipage} % End right-hand side of the page

%%%%%%  END  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\end{center}
\end{document}

Best Answer

You have conflicting requests: if you disable hyphenation, you have to expect bad word spacing, unless you typeset your narrow columns ragged right.

The columns could be a bit wider if you remove the padding at the sides. I added

\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}X}

and changed the calls to tabularx into

\begin{tabularx}{1\linewidth}{>{@{}>{\bfseries}lY@{}}

Note that the default fonts don't have small caps bold face. If you use a different font family that has, just add \scshape after \bfseries.

\documentclass[a4paper, 14pt, oneside]{article}
\usepackage{soul} % Used for the title name (eg. title)
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{marvosym} % add the symbols for email and phone contact data
\usepackage{fancyhdr} % Required for the footer
\usepackage{tabularx} % Nicer table style than the default
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{abstract}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor} % Allows the definition of hex colors

\definecolor{headings}{HTML}{701112} % Dark red color for headings
\definecolor{text1}{HTML}{2b2b2b} % Main document font color, off-black

\usepackage[none]{hyphenat} % Prevents hyphenation in text


\usepackage[margin=10mm,bottom=20mm]{geometry}

\linespread{1.1} % Line spacing

% Sections formatting
\titleformat{\section}{\color{headings}
\scshape\Large\raggedright}{}{0em}{}[\color{black}\titlerule]

\pagestyle{fancy}


\renewcommand\headrulewidth{0pt} % Size of the header rule
\renewcommand\footrulewidth{0.001pt} % Size of the footer rule

\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}X}

\usepackage[pdfborder={0 0 0},bookmarks=true,pdftitle={CV},pdfauthor={first last},pdfsubject={Curriculum Vitae},pdfcreator={www.abhij.com},pdfproducer={www.abhij.com}]{hyperref}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%  CV STARTS HERE  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\begin{document}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%  NAME AND CONTACT  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\begin{center}
%Uncomment below to color the \textsl{\textit{\textbf{\emph{\textsc{\textsc{\textsc{headings}}}}}}}
%\color{headings}
%\textsc{\Huge\so{Abhilash Sukumari}} \\ % Use for extra spacing inbetween the words.
\textsc{\Huge First Last} \\
\vspace{0pt}
\color{text1}{\Large\Telefon} (Area code)-xxx-xxxx \hfill {\Large\Writinghand} Street, Apt \# XXXX, City, EX-7xxxx \hfill {\Large\Letter} \href{mailto:email@email.com}{email@email.com} 

%%%%%% SKILLS  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Start the left-hand side of the page
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\textwidth}
\vspace{0pt} % Trick for alignment
\section{Skills}
\begin{tabularx}{1\linewidth}{@{}>{\bfseries}lY@{}}
Something & Something, Something, Something, Something, C, C++\\
Others  & \LaTeX, \textsc{html}\\
Others  & Something Something (Something), Something Something (Something Something Something)
\end{tabularx}
\end{minipage} % End left-hand side of the page
\hfill
%%%%%%  Tool proficiency  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Start the right-hand side of the page
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\textwidth} 
\vspace{0pt} %trick for alignment
\section{Tools} 
\begin{tabularx}{1\linewidth}{@{}>{\bfseries}lY@{}}
Tool    & Something-Something (Something) \& Something Something \\
Others  & Something, Something Something, Something, Something Something, Something-Something, Something \\
\end{tabularx}

\end{minipage} % End right-hand side of the page

%%%%%%  END  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\end{center}
\end{document}

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Footnotes within minipage environments are printed with small letters. The definition in latex.ltx is

\def\thempfootnote{{\itshape\@alph\c@mpfootnote}}

You could redefine it. A quick way would be:

\let\thempfootnote\thefootnote

Afterwards the footnote symbols within a minipage will be an arabic number as well.

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Below there's one possible solution; the key ideas were:

I used the solution given in How to keep a constant baselineskip when using minipages (or \parboxes)? to guarantee spacing after the minipages.
Before the minipages I used \smallskip\nointerlinespacing.
I defined a newenvironment sminipage (to apply \small inside minipage); the optional argument (set by default to t) controls the alignment of the minipage and the mandatory argument sets the width of the minipage.

I also made some other modifications to improve your code:

I removed the spurious blank space after the first \end{minipage}.
I defined a \Pder command to facilitate the writing of the partial derivatives.

The idea was to obtain (approximately) the same spacing around the equations inside the minipage as the one used for regular equations not inside a minipage (I added a regular equation environment at the end just for comparison purposes):

    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{amsmath}
    \usepackage[nopar]{lipsum}% just to generate text for the example

    \newcommand\Pder[2]{%
      \frac{\mathrm{d}#1}{\mathrm{d}#2}}

    \newenvironment{sminipage}[2][t]
      {\minipage[t]{#2}\small}
      {\endminipage}

    \begin{document}

    \lipsum*[4]\par\smallskip\nointerlineskip
    \noindent\begin{sminipage}[t]{0.5\textwidth}
    \begin{equation}\label{e3}
    \begin{split}
    \Pder{x'}{t} &= \Pder{x}{t} - \Pder{\phantom{x}}{t} (ut) \\
    \Pder{x'}{t} &= \Pder{x}{t} - u\,\Pder{\phantom{x}}{t} (t) \\
    \Pder{x'}{t} &= \Pder{x}{t} - u\,\Pder{t}{t} \\
    v' &= v - u
    \end{split}
    \end{equation}
    \end{sminipage}%
    \begin{sminipage}{0.5\textwidth}
    \begin{equation}\label{e4}
    \begin{split}
    \Pder{x}{t} &= \Pder{x'}{t} - \Pder{\phantom{x}}{t} (ut) \\
    \Pder{x}{t} &= \Pder{x'}{t} - u\,\Pder{\phantom{x}}{t} (t) \\
    \Pder{x}{t} &= \Pder{x'}{t} - u\,\Pder{t}{t} \\
    v &= v' + u
    \end{split}
    \end{equation}\null
    \par\xdef\tpd{\the\prevdepth}
    \end{sminipage}

    \prevdepth\tpd
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    \begin{equation}
    a=b
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I defined now (as was requested in a comment) a new environment eqmpage which basically is a top aligned minipage with constant width of \linewidth which automates all the preparations mentioned above:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[nopar]{lipsum}% just to generate text for the example

\newcommand\Pder[2]{%
  \frac{\mathrm{d}#1}{\mathrm{d}#2}}

\newenvironment{sminipage}[2][t]
  {\minipage[t]{#2}\small}
  {\endminipage}

\newenvironment{eqmpage}
  {\par\smallskip\nointerlineskip%
    \noindent\minipage[t]{\textwidth}}
  {\par\xdef\tpd{\the\prevdepth}\endminipage\par\prevdepth\tpd}

\begin{document}

\lipsum*[4]

\begin{eqmpage}
\begin{sminipage}[t]{0.5\textwidth}
\begin{equation}\label{e3}
\begin{split}
\Pder{x'}{t} &= \Pder{x}{t} - \Pder{\phantom{x}}{t} (ut) \\
\Pder{x'}{t} &= \Pder{x}{t} - u\,\Pder{\phantom{x}}{t} (t) \\
\Pder{x'}{t} &= \Pder{x}{t} - u\,\Pder{t}{t} \\
v' &= v - u
\end{split}
\end{equation}
\end{sminipage}%
\begin{sminipage}{0.5\textwidth}
\begin{equation}\label{e4}
\begin{split}
\Pder{x}{t} &= \Pder{x'}{t} - \Pder{\phantom{x}}{t} (ut) \\
\Pder{x}{t} &= \Pder{x'}{t} - u\,\Pder{\phantom{x}}{t} (t) \\
\Pder{x}{t} &= \Pder{x'}{t} - u\,\Pder{t}{t} \\
v &= v' + u
\end{split}
\end{equation}\null
\end{sminipage}
\end{eqmpage}
\noindent\lipsum[2]
\begin{equation}
a=b
\end{equation}
\lipsum[4]

\end{document}

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