Indentation after '\tabular' environments

Question

I was filling some tables for my progress report and noticed something were odd. The following text/tables are indented. MWE:

\documentclass[12pt, oneside]{book}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[paper = a4paper, margin = 1in, headheight = 12pt, includehead, showframe]{geometry}

\begin{document}
 \section*{Section 1}
  \subsection*{Subsection 1}
   \begin{tabular}{ l l p{0.5cm} l l }
    TextText: & TextText & & TextText & TextText\\
    TextText & TextText & & TextText & TextText
   \end{tabular}
   \vspace{12pt}
   {\scriptsize{\bfseries{Little note!}}}
   \vspace{12pt}
   \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{| X |}
    \hline
    \bfseries{Tabletitle}\\
    \hline
    \\ \\ \\
    \hline      
   \end{tabularx}
\end{document}

Is that really the normal behaviour and is there any other way as \begin{flushleft} ... \end{flushleft} to remove the indentation a get the right alignment?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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You can turn off indentation globally by adding \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} or if you only want to turn it of for the table add a \noindent before\begin{..}. Compare also this post: How to disable automatic indentation on new paragraphs?

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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answered Jul 09 '13 at 08:53

Martin - マーチン

1,765

Yeah I just remembered that I already used \parindent0em in one of my previous documents. -.- – Chris.V Jul 09 '13 at 09:12
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\parindent0em has a bad effect on your document layout; at the least you need to set a non-zero \parskip, but that has its difficulties too. personally, i would use \noindent before each thing whose indentation you need to suppress. – wasteofspace Jul 09 '13 at 10:30

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 09 '13 at 08:45

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The second table is in a new paragraph, so it gets indented. Putting \noindent before \begin{tabularx} well prevent its indentation.

answered Jul 09 '13 at 08:45

ChrisS

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Ahh, thanks a lot. Sometimes I'm really daft. -.- I don't know, how I could miss that. – Chris.V Jul 09 '13 at 08:57

Indentation after '\tabular' environments

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