Text Formatting ⇒ Specific New Column Issue

[InquisitorMo]

I cannot figure out why this won't work, as I've done it before in the exact same document.

I'm trying to right align a fixed width column, but I get an "undefined control sequence" error.

If I change the letter "z" to a "p" (so in other words just specify a fixed width column, then this MWE compiles.

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}

% Another column I used with different syntax, which works 
% correctly in another part of the document when I use R{2in}
% in the column parameter.
%\newcolumntype{R}{>{\raggedleft\arraybackslash}X}

\newcolumntype{z}[1]{>{\ragggedleft\arraybackslash}p{#1}} 

\begin{document}
  \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{r l | z{2in} l}
    \textbf{\small{Text}} & \small{Text} & \textbf{\small{Text}} & \small{Text} \\
  \end{tabularx}
\end{document}

[localghost]

A very good example! Minimal and self-contained, thus easy to handle.

The macro is called \raggedright. You have inserted a "g" too much in the declaration of your z column type.

By the way, using your R column type seems to be better here since you are in a tabularx environment.


Thorsten

[InquisitorMo]

After an hour of thinking I was doing something completely structurally wrong... that typo was VERY painful. But I still wound up laughing at myself.

THANK YOU!!!

[localghost]

Typos can happen to everyone of us. It's just a case of missing the forest for the trees here.