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Parbox wrapping text columns #2097

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a4fa950
first look at updating to use parbox within multicolumn and shortstac…
thebioengineer Dec 19, 2025
9ac5492
more conditions around setting width, removing parbox when not needed…
thebioengineer Dec 20, 2025
2206210
flipped setting columns widths when it wasnt missing
thebioengineer Dec 20, 2025
4dc2ca5
handle multi-column stub
thebioengineer Jan 5, 2026
19ab4b6
bump version
thebioengineer Jan 5, 2026
f98d42a
update news and snapshots
thebioengineer Jan 5, 2026
3d84386
fix footnotes and the tests
thebioengineer Jan 6, 2026
05a22e3
update to handle alignment within parbox - required when multicolumnm…
thebioengineer Jan 7, 2026
6227794
updating snapshots and matching tests for new latex formatting
thebioengineer Jan 7, 2026
0325d70
handle footnotes to be within the shortstack
thebioengineer Jan 7, 2026
61bc767
handle footmarks better
thebioengineer Jan 8, 2026
4f597af
fix case where there is no colwidth_df for group, update test
thebioengineer Jan 8, 2026
dc354a8
update to handle when footnotes are added to a simple parbox, and add…
thebioengineer Jan 8, 2026
18d54a7
make ifelse
thebioengineer Jan 8, 2026
1cc0f31
remove spaces between footnote mark text and content
thebioengineer Jan 8, 2026
ba35196
update tests for no space between footnote and footmark
thebioengineer Jan 8, 2026
419d2b9
Merge branch 'master' into parbox_wrapping_text_columns
rich-iannone Jan 9, 2026
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion DESCRIPTION
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Type: Package
Package: gt
Title: Easily Create Presentation-Ready Display Tables
Version: 1.2.0.9000
Version: 1.2.0.9001
Authors@R: c(
person("Richard", "Iannone", , "rich@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre"),
comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-3925-190X")),
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions NEWS.md
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# gt (development version)

* Update how long text that has a line break or is horizontally aligned in a cell (stubs, labels, table body).

# gt 1.2.0

* The new `fmt_number_si()` function format numeric values with SI prefixes and an optional unit (which could be also be obtained from a separate column), automatically selecting the appropriate prefix to keep the mantissa in a readable range (#1999). (#2060)
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7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion R/utils.R
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}

if(grepl("..gt\\_linebreak\\_indicator..", x, fixed = TRUE)){
x <- paste0("\\shortstack[l]{" ,gsub("..gt\\_linebreak\\_indicator..", " \\\\", x, fixed = TRUE), "}")
## if there is a linebreak, wrap the text in a shortstack, and put it into a parbox that has the width set to linewidth
x <- paste0("\\shortstack[l]{" ,
parbox_wrapper(
gsub("..gt\\_linebreak\\_indicator..", " \\\\", x, fixed = TRUE),
"\\linewidth"),
"}")
}

x
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