I would like the first word (i.e. Programming) to be hyphenated, but it is not and it is running into the column beside it. I'm thinking that since it is a standalone word, LaTeX is trying to avoid hyphenating it?
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{array,tabularx}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabularx}{2in}{@{}p{0.3in}@{\hspace{3ex}}X@{}}
Programming & Python, MATLAB, R, FORTRAN\\
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}
% also tried this in place of p column: >{\raggedright\hsize=6ex\arraybackslash}X
Also tried removing @{\hspace{3ex}} between columns
\hspace{0pt}as\hspace{0pt}Programmingshould work. However, the result might look not that pleasing since0.3inis extremely small for such a column. What's the reason for such a narrow table? – leandriis Nov 06 '19 at 21:37paracolumnstag since I did not see any connection between your example and text in parallelly typeset columns. – leandriis Nov 06 '19 at 21:40