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I am normally typesetting small tables using the basic tabularenvironment. This has a optional parameter controlling the vertical position of the tabular with respect to the baseline of the surrounding text. Now for some reason I needed switch to tabularx. However, here the optional position parameter is missing, so that now the center of the table is aligned with the baseline:

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\begin{document}

A simple text
\begin{tabular}[b]{lr}
    A & B \\ C & D \\
\end{tabular}
and a little more
\begin{tabularx}{.1\linewidth}{lr}
    A & B \\ C & D \\
\end{tabularx}
and the rest.

\end{document}

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Any idea how I can achieve an alignment with the bottom of the table?

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    note you have no X column in your tabularx so that can not work as a tabularx, it essentially falls back to being tabular* (but less efficient) every tabularx has to have at least one X column. – David Carlisle Dec 11 '16 at 14:42
  • @DavidCarlisle This is a MWE. I didnt need a X column here. Obviously, my use case is a bit more complex. – Dux Dec 11 '16 at 14:45
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tabularx has the same parameter, as for tabular* it follows the width argument.

 \begin{tabularx}{3cm}[t]{XXX}

Early versions of the package documentation did not mention it but it has always had the argument.

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  • Oh damn! I tried it, but before the length definition. And the package documentation on my system didn't mention it either. Thank you so much :D – Dux Dec 11 '16 at 14:44
  • @Dux No the doc didn't mention it explicitly for a couple of decades, I did update it last year (I think) however it was implicitly documented as the arguments of tabularx were defined as being "the same as tabular*" even in the earliest versions of the documentation. – David Carlisle Dec 11 '16 at 14:49
  • I sure missed that... – Dux Dec 11 '16 at 14:51

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