Krdytkyu

I have quite a lot of text that I want to format in a readable manner in a single cell of a table, so I want to use hangindents. But in addition to that I want to make the text justified, but this is not working. If I use usepackage{ragged2e} and then change raggedright to justify, all hell breaks loose.

In order to have the hangindent, I needed to make a customnewline command, to repeat the hangindent (see difference between left and right column).

How can I combine this all, so make the text 'hang' and justified?

Note: It is quite a large table, which I am creating using Excel2LaTeX, so I would like to make the least amount of changes possible... That's why I changed the columntype.

documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}



usepackage{booktabs}

usepackage{multirow}

usepackage{tabularx}



begin{document}



% define new column type

newcolumntype{Y}[1]{>{small hangindent=1em raggedright letnewline\arraybackslash}p{#1}}



% define newline to use hangindent on new line

newcommand{customnewline}{newline hangindent=1em}



renewcommand{arraystretch}{1.3}





begin{table}[htbp]

  centering

  caption{Example}

    begin{tabular}{Y{15em}Y{15em}}

    toprule

    multicolumn{1}{c}{textbf{customnewline}} & multicolumn{1}{c}{textbf{normal newline}} \

    midrule

    A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent customnewline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well & A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent newline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well \

    A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent customnewline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well & A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent newline And there some more text in the same cell that I want to hangindent as well \

    bottomrule

    end{tabular}%

  label{tab:addlabel}%

end{table}%



end{document}

You can use a blank line, instead, provided you set up hanging indentation for every paragraph:

documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}



usepackage{booktabs,array}



begin{document}



% define new column type

newcolumntype{Y}[1]{%

  >{smallraggedrighteverypar{hangindent=1em}arraybackslash}p{#1}%

}



newcolumntype{Z}[1]{%

  >{smalleverypar{hangindent=1em}arraybackslash}p{#1}%

}



% define newline to use hangindent on new line



renewcommand{arraystretch}{1.3}



noindent

begin{tabular}{Y{15em}Z{15em}}

toprule

multicolumn{1}{c}{Ragged right} &

multicolumn{1}{c}{Justified} \

midrule

A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent



And there some more text in the same cell that I want to 

hangindent as well

&

A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent



And there some more text in the same cell that I want to 

hangindent as well

\

midrule

A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent



And there some more text in the same cell that I want to 

hangindent as well

&

A lot of text that I want to justify and hangindent



And there some more text in the same cell that I want to 

hangindent as well

\

bottomrule

end{tabular}



end{document}