[XeTeX] table indentation

[Ross Moore]

Hello Michiel,

On 23/11/2009, at 12:51 AM, Michiel Kamermans wrote:

> Does anyone here by any chance know how to disentangle table  
> indentation from paragraph indentation? For the most part I have a  
> document with section headings, then text, then some tabular data,  
> but there are a small number of sections without text between the  
> heading and the tabular environment, and instead of lining up with  
> the other tables, they'll sit flush against the page's left edge,  
> which is truly dismal styling =)
>
> I know I can manually force indents with \hspace or no indents with  
> \noident, but is there a way to tell tabular to not pretend it's a  
> paragraph?

It's not clear whether you want all the tables to be indented,
or not indented.

Since you seem to be complaining about some non-indented ones,
it would seem that you actually want a consistent indent.
What is happening then is that the first paragraph in a section
is normally not indented, whereas subsequent ones are indented.
If this is relatively rare, why not just use \indent for those
few cases? (It'll serve as an indicator that there really should
have been some text there.)


Do your tables have captions?
If so, then you could use the {table} floating environment.

This would avoid your problem with indents, but still might not
be what you want. It's hard to comment without seeing a PDF
showing how the tables look, and how much text there is.

>
> - Mike "Pomax" Kamermans
> nihongoresources.com


Hope this helps,

	Ross

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