How do I right-align the last line of a justified paragraph?

Question

I want to wrap around text in a table cell; therefore I use the p option in the definition of tabular. However, I'm writing in Hebrew, so it aligns the last line to the left, instead of to the right. Can it be solved?

Answer 1

If you want the entire cell contents to be justified, except the last line to be right justified (\raggedleft), you can use the following length settings (original source):

\leftskip=0pt plus .5fil
\rightskip=0pt plus -.5fil
\parfillskip=0pt plus .5fil

Here is a minimal working example (MWE) showing this in a tabular with p{5cm} column and some dummy text (provided by the lipsum package):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
\newcommand{\RTLpar}{% right-to-left paragraph alignment
  \leftskip=0pt plus .5fil%
  \rightskip=0pt plus -.5fil%
  \parfillskip=0pt plus .5fil%
}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{p{5cm}}
  \RTLpar%
  \lipsum[1]
\end{tabular}
\end{document}​

The MWE provides \RTLpar (short for "right-to-left paragraph") which modified these settings.